The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 21

Then the magician brewed a powerful potion out of nine sorts of herbs which he had gathered himself all alone by moonlight, and he gave the youth nine spoonfuls of it daily for three days, which made him able to understand the language of birds.

Who acts: magician, moonlight, three days · What happens: brew, gather, give, make, understand, sort · To what, where: powerful potion, nine sorts, herbs, youth, magician, language

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, moonlight, three days), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 brewed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magician	det
3	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brewed	nsubj
4	brewed	brew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 potion	det
6	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 potion	amod
7	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brewed	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 sorts	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sorts	case
10	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 sorts	nummod
11	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brewed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 herbs	case
13	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sorts	nmod
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 gathered	nsubj:pass
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gathered	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gathered	aux
17	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 herbs	acl:relcl
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 gathered	obj
19	all	all	ADV	_	20 alone	advmod
20	alone	alone	ADV	_	17 gathered	advmod
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 moonlight	case
22	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gathered	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gave	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gave	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	nsubj
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brewed	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 youth	det
28	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	obj
29	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 spoonfuls	nummod
30	spoonfuls	spoonful	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 gave	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 spoonfuls	nmod
33	daily	daily	ADV	_	26 gave	advmod
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 days	case
35	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 days	nummod
36	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 gave	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 made	punct
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 made	nsubj
39	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 days	acl:relcl
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 made	obj
41	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 made	xcomp
42	to	to	PART	_	43 understand	mark
43	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 able	xcomp
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 language	det
45	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 understand	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 birds	case
47	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 language	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brewed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brew	past	the magician	a powerful potion	nine sorts of herbs	then		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potion=Product
2	gather	past · perfect · passive	moonlight	herbs			alone property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary himself=Theme
3	give	past	magician	the youth		day	daily property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient spoonful=Theme
4	make	past	three days	magician			able property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
5	understand	to-infinitive	magician not said here	the language of birds				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
6	sort			herbs				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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