The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 15
Here you will find the witch who turns men into swine, and the man who bores out the big foolish giant’s eye, and the cap of darkness, and the shoes of swiftness, that were worn later by Jack the Giant-Killer.
Who acts: you, witch, man, Jack · What happens: find, turn, bore out, wear · To what, where: witch, men, swine, eye, shoes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Green Fairy Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, witch, man, Jack), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 find | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 turns | nsubj |
| 8 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 witch | acl:relcl |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turns | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 swine | case |
| 11 | swine | swine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turns | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 man | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 man | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 bores | nsubj |
| 17 | bores | bore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 man | acl:relcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 bores | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 giant | det |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 giant | amod |
| 21 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 giant | amod |
| 22 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eye | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 giant | case |
| 24 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bores | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cap | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 cap | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cap | det |
| 28 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bores | parataxis |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 darkness | case |
| 30 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cap | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 worn | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 worn | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 shoes | det |
| 34 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 worn | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 swiftness | case |
| 36 | swiftness | swiftness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shoes | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 worn | punct |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 worn | nsubj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 worn | aux:pass |
| 40 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 bores | parataxis |
| 41 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 40 worn | advmod |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 Jack | case |
| 43 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 worn | obl:agent |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Killer | det |
| 45 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 Killer | amod |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 Giant | punct |
| 47 | Killer | Killer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Jack | appos |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | you | the witch | here | the man obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Topic | ||
| 2 | turn | present | the witch | men | swine | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent man=Theme into swine=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | bore out | present | the man | the big foolish giant's eye | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | wear | past · passive | Jack | the shoes of swiftness | late property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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