The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 92
When she began to weep and to say, ‘Dearest sweetheart, I freed you in the horrible wild wood, and from an iron stove,’ he jumped up and said, ‘You are right.
Who acts: bride, I, prince, You · What happens: begin, weep, say, free, jump up, be · To what, where: Dearest sweetheart, you, horrible wild wood, iron stove · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, I, prince, You), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 freed | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 weep | mark |
| 5 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 say | cc |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 say | mark |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 weep | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sweetheart | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 sweetheart | punct |
| 11 | Dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 sweetheart | amod |
| 12 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 freed | nsubj |
| 15 | freed | free | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 freed | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wood | det |
| 19 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wood | amod |
| 20 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wood | amod |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 freed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 jumped | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 jumped | cc |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 stove | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 stove | det |
| 26 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stove | compound |
| 27 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 jumped | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stove | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 stove | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 jumped | nsubj |
| 31 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 freed | conj |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 jumped | compound:prt |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 said | cc |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 jumped | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 right | punct |
| 36 | ‘ | ‘ | SCONJ | _ | 39 right | mark |
| 37 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 right | nsubj |
| 38 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 right | cop |
| 39 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 said | ccomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 freed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | bride | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | weep | to-infinitive | bride not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | bride not said here | Dearest sweetheart | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sweetheart=Topic | ||||
| 4 | free | past | I | you | the horrible wild wood | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer you=Source | |||
| 5 | jump up | past | prince | a iron stove | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from stove=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | present | You | right property | tree rules |
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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