The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 44
She went up to him and said, ‘I pronounce this spell, that you become a beautiful prince, and that Hadvor shall be unable to say anything against the charges that I shall bring against her.’
Who acts: Queen, I, you, Hadvor, charges · What happens: go up, say, pronounce, become, be, bring · To what, where: thundering, spell, beautiful prince, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Queen, I, you, Hadvor), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pronounce | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 pronounce | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 pronounce | nsubj |
| 11 | pronounce | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 spell | det |
| 13 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pronounce | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 become | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 become | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 become | nsubj |
| 17 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pronounce | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 prince | amod |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 become | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 unable | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 unable | cc |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 unable | mark |
| 24 | Hadvor | Hadvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 unable | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 unable | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 unable | cop |
| 27 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 say | mark |
| 29 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 unable | xcomp |
| 30 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 29 say | obj |
| 31 | against | against | ADP | _ | 33 charges | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 charges | det |
| 33 | charges | charge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 anything | nmod |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 bring | nsubj |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 bring | nsubj |
| 36 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 bring | aux |
| 37 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 charges | acl:relcl |
| 38 | against | against | ADP | _ | 39 her | case |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 bring | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | Queen | thundering | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Queen not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pronounce | present | I | this spell | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme | ||||
| 4 | become | present | you | a beautiful prince | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | shall | Hadvor | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Hadvor not said here | anything | against the charges | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | |||
| 7 | bring | shall | the charges | against Queen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent against she=Destination |
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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