The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 34

Now the ceremony took place, and when the married pair were alone together the Crab made himself known to his young wife, and told her how he was the son of the greatest king in the world, and how he was enchanted, so that he became a crab by day and was a man only at night; and he could also change himself into an eagle as often as he wished.

Who acts: ceremony, married pair, Crab, pair, man · What happens: take, be, make, know, tell, enchant · To what, where: place, pair, ceremony, son, crab, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ceremony, married pair, Crab, pair), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ceremony	det
3	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 were	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pair	det
10	married	married	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pair	amod
11	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 were	nsubj
12	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 made	advcl
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 were	advmod
14	together	together	ADV	_	12 were	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Crab	det
16	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 made	nsubj
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 made	obj
19	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 made	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 wife	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wife	nmod:poss
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 wife	amod
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 known	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 told	cc
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 son	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 son	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 son	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 son	det
32	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 told	ccomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 king	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 king	det
35	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 king	amod
36	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 son	nmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 world	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 world	det
39	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 king	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 enchanted	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 enchanted	cc
42	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	45 enchanted	advmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 enchanted	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 enchanted	aux:pass
45	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 told	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 became	punct
47	so	so	ADV	_	50 became	advmod
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 became	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 became	nsubj
50	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	parataxis
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 crab	det
52	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 became	xcomp
53	by	by	ADP	_	54 day	case
54	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 became	obl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 man	cc
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 man	cop
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 man	det
58	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 became	conj
59	only	only	ADV	_	61 night	advmod
60	at	at	ADP	_	61 night	case
61	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 man	nmod
62	;	;	PUNCT	_	67 change	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 change	cc
64	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 change	nsubj
65	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	67 change	aux
66	also	also	ADV	_	67 change	advmod
67	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	parataxis
68	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	67 change	obj
69	into	into	ADP	_	71 eagle	case
70	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	71 eagle	det
71	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 change	obl
72	as	as	ADV	_	73 often	advmod
73	often	often	ADV	_	76 wished	advmod
74	as	as	SCONJ	_	76 wished	mark
75	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	76 wished	nsubj
76	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	parataxis
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the ceremony	place		now		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
2	be	past	the married pair				alone, together property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	past	the Crab	pair				tree rules
4	know	participle	pair not said here				to pair's young wife	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	tell speech: assert	past	the ceremony not said here		ceremony			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	is a	past	pair	the son			of the greatest king in the world	tree rules
7	enchant	past · passive		pair				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
8	become	past	pair	a crab		day		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
9	is a	past	pair not said here	a man		night		tree rules
10	change	could	man	man			into a eagle result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into eagle=Result
11	wish	past	man				often property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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