The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 178
‘Now, villain, you are in my power!’ cried the Witch-maiden.
Who acts: you, villain · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: power, Witch maiden
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 (you, villain), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 cried | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 power | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 power | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 power | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 power | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 power | nmod:poss |
| 10 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 villain | conj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 villain | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 villain | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 maiden | det |
| 15 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 maiden | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Witch | punct |
| 17 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | my power | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | villain and my power | the Witch maiden | now | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic |
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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