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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

advmodnsubjauxdetobjnsubjacl:relclobjcaseoblpunctccdetoblnsubjacl:relclcompound:prtdetamodamodnmod:posscaseobjpunctccdetparataxiscasenmodpunctccdetnsubj:passcasenmodpunctnsubjaux:passparataxisadvmodcaseobl:agentdetamodpunctappospunctrootHereADVyouPRONwillAUXfindVERBtheDETwitchNOUNwhoPRONturnsVERBmenNOUNintoADPswineNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETmanNOUNwhoPRONboresVERBoutADPtheDETbigADJfoolishADJgiantNOUN’sPARTeyeNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETcapNOUNofADPdarknessNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETshoesNOUNofADPswiftnessNOUN,PUNCTthatPRONwereAUXwornVERBlaterADVbyADPJackPROPNtheDETGiantADJ-PUNCTKillerPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HerehereADVPronType=Dem4 findadvmod
2youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs4 findnsubj
3willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin4 findaux
4findfindVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 witchdet
6witchwitchNOUNNumber=Sing4 findobj
7whowhoPRONPronType=Rel8 turnsnsubj
8turnsturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 witchacl:relcl
9menmanNOUNNumber=Plur8 turnsobj
10intointoADP_11 swinecase
11swineswineNOUNNumber=Sing8 turnsobl
12,,PUNCT_15 manpunct
13andandCCONJ_15 mancc
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 mandet
15manmanNOUNNumber=Sing4 findobl
16whowhoPRONPronType=Rel17 boresnsubj
17boresboreVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 manacl:relcl
18outoutADP_17 borescompound:prt
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 giantdet
20bigbigADJDegree=Pos22 giantamod
21foolishfoolishADJDegree=Pos22 giantamod
22giantgiantNOUNNumber=Sing24 eyenmod:poss
23’s'sPART_22 giantcase
24eyeeyeNOUNNumber=Sing17 boresobj
25,,PUNCT_28 cappunct
26andandCCONJ_28 capcc
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 capdet
28capcapNOUNNumber=Sing17 boresparataxis
29ofofADP_30 darknesscase
30darknessdarknessNOUNNumber=Sing28 capnmod
31,,PUNCT_40 wornpunct
32andandCCONJ_40 worncc
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 shoesdet
34shoesshoeNOUNNumber=Plur40 wornnsubj:pass
35ofofADP_36 swiftnesscase
36swiftnessswiftnessNOUNNumber=Sing34 shoesnmod
37,,PUNCT_40 wornpunct
38thatthatPRONPronType=Rel40 wornnsubj
39werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin40 wornaux:pass
40wornwearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass17 boresparataxis
41laterlateADVDegree=Cmp40 wornadvmod
42bybyADP_43 Jackcase
43JackJackPROPNNumber=Sing40 wornobl:agent
44thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art47 Killerdet
45GiantgiantADJDegree=Pos47 Killeramod
46--PUNCT_45 Giantpunct
47KillerKillerPROPNNumber=Sing43 Jackappos
48..PUNCT_4 findpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1findfutureyouthe witchherethe man oblvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Topic
2turnpresentthe witchmenswinevn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent man=Theme into swine=Trajectory
3bore outpresentthe manthe big foolish giant's eyevn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer
4wearpast · passiveJackthe shoes of swiftnesslate propertyvn 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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