The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 195
The magician soon found out what he wished to know, and pointed out the place where the Prince was imprisoned, but said: ‘He is kept there by enchantment, and cannot be set free without my help.
Who acts: magician, enchantment, my · What happens: find out, wish, know, point out, imprison, say · To what, where: place, Prince, magician · 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, enchantment, my), 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 | 2 magician | det |
| 2 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 found | advmod |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 found | compound:prt |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 found | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wished | nsubj |
| 8 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 know | mark |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wished | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pointed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pointed | cc |
| 13 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 found | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 pointed | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pointed | obj |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 imprisoned | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prince | det |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 imprisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 imprisoned | aux:pass |
| 21 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 place | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | parataxis |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 kept | punct |
| 26 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 kept | punct |
| 27 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 kept | aux:pass |
| 29 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 said | ccomp |
| 30 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 kept | advmod |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 enchantment | case |
| 32 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 kept | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 set | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 set | cc |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 set | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 set | advmod |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 set | cop |
| 38 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 kept | conj |
| 39 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 set | conj |
| 40 | without | without | ADP | _ | 42 help | case |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 help | nmod:poss |
| 42 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 set | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | past | the magician | soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | magician | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | magician not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | point out | participle | the place | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | |||||
| 5 | imprison | past · passive | the Prince | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | keep | present · passive | enchantment | magician | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 8 | not is | can | enchantment not said here | without my help; set property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | be | enchantment not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 10 | help | my | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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