The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 147
But the magician answered, ‘I have profited so much by the wisdom the ring has taught me that I desire no other reward.’
Who acts: magician, I, wisdom · What happens: answer, profit, teach, desire · To what, where: ring, me, other reward · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, I, wisdom), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 magician | det |
| 3 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 profited | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 profited | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 profited | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 profited | aux |
| 9 | profited | profit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 profited | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 wisdom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wisdom | det |
| 14 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taught | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ring | det |
| 16 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 taught | aux |
| 18 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 profited | advcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 taught | iobj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 desire | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 desire | nsubj |
| 22 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 taught | advcl |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 reward | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 reward | amod |
| 25 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 desire | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the magician | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | profit | present · perfect | I | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V»: agent=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | present · perfect · passive | the wisdom | the ring | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient i=Topic | |||
| 4 | desire | present | I | no other reward | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot reward=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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