The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 84

The youth could not but be tempted with the beautiful maiden’s offer, but he remembered how the birds had called her the witch, and their warning always sounded in his ears.

Who acts: foot, warning, beautiful maiden, birds · What happens: not tempt, remember, call, sound, offer, warn · To what, where: youth, birds, ears · 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 (foot, warning, beautiful maiden, birds), 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 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tempted	nsubj:pass
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tempted	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 tempted	advmod
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 tempted	cc
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 tempted	aux:pass
7	tempted	tempt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	13 offer	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 maiden	det
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 maiden	amod
11	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 offer	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 maiden	case
13	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tempted	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 remembered	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 remembered	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 remembered	nsubj
17	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tempted	parataxis
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 called	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 birds	det
20	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 called	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 called	aux
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 remembered	ccomp
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 called	obj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 witch	det
25	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 called	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sounded	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sounded	cc
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 warning	nmod:poss
29	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sounded	nsubj
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 sounded	advmod
31	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 remembered	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 ears	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 ears	nmod:poss
34	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sounded	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tempted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not tempt	could · passive		the youth		with the beautiful maiden's offer	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	remember	past	foot				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	call	past · perfect · passive		the birds			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme she=Result
4	sound	past	birds's warning		foot's ears	always property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
5	offer		the beautiful maiden				nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent
6	warn		birds = bird				nom warning «communication 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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