The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 33
This is no new thing for the Queen; she took me away from my parents’ house and compelled me to serve her; but she has never done me any harm, for the green cloak I wear protects me against all mischief.
Who acts: This, Queen, I, new thing · What happens: be, take, compel, serve, not do, wear · To what, where: new thing, me, Queen, harm, green cloak
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Queen, I, new thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 protects | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Queen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | parataxis |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 took | iobj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 took | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 parents | nmod:poss |
| 16 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 16 parents | case |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 away | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 compelled | cc |
| 20 | compelled | compel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 compelled | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 serve | mark |
| 23 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 compelled | advcl |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 serve | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 done | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 done | cc |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 done | nsubj |
| 28 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 done | aux |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 done | advmod |
| 30 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 took | conj |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 done | iobj |
| 32 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 harm | det |
| 33 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 done | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 cloak | punct |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 cloak | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 cloak | det |
| 37 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 cloak | amod |
| 38 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 done | obl |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 wear | nsubj |
| 40 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 cloak | acl:relcl |
| 41 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 42 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 protects | obj |
| 43 | against | against | ADP | _ | 45 mischief | case |
| 44 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 mischief | det |
| 45 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 protects | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 protects | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | no new thing | for the Queen | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past | Queen | me | away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | |||
| 3 | compel | past | Queen not said here | me | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 4 | serve | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | Queen | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | not do | present · perfect | Queen | any harm | me | for the green cloak | tree rules | ||
| 6 | wear | present | I | the green cloak not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme | ||||
| 7 | protect | present | no new thing | me | against all mischief | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary against mischief=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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