The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 199
However, he undid the chains by the help of magic, and took care of the Prince until he recovered and became strong enough to travel.
Who acts: magician, Prince · What happens: undo, take, recover, become, travel, help · To what, where: chains, care, magic
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, Prince), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 undid | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 undid | nsubj |
| 4 | undid | undo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chains | det |
| 6 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 undid | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 help | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 help | det |
| 9 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 undid | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 magic | case |
| 11 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 help | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 undid | conj |
| 15 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Prince | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Prince | det |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 care | nmod |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 recovered | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 recovered | nsubj |
| 21 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | advcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 became | cc |
| 23 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 recovered | conj |
| 24 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 became | xcomp |
| 25 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 24 strong | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 travel | mark |
| 27 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 strong | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 undid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undo | past | magician | the chains | by the help of magic; however property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Patient | |||
| 2 | take | past | magician not said here | care of the Prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 3 | recover | past | magician | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | become | past | magician not said here | strong property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | travel | to-infinitive | magician not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | help | magic | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | care | the Prince | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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