The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 174
The Witch-maiden had never rested night nor day until she had found out where the ring was.
Who acts: maiden, ring · What happens: not rest, find out, be · To what, where: Witch maiden · 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 (maiden, ring), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 2 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 maiden | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Witch | punct |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rested | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rested | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 rested | advmod |
| 7 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rested | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 day | cc |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 night | conj |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 found | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | aux |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 rested | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 found | compound:prt |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 was | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ring | det |
| 18 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 was | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not rest | past · perfect · passive | the Witch maiden | night | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find out | past · perfect | maiden | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be | past | the ring | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/5/174/