The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 71
So you were bewitched, my son were you?
Who acts: son · What happens: bewitch, be · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 bewitched | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 bewitched | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bewitched | aux:pass |
| 4 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bewitched | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 you | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 you | cop |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 bewitched | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 bewitched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bewitch | past · passive | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | my son | you | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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