The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 30
Meantime the Fairy had carried off the little Prince to her own castle, and placed him under the care of a young peasant woman, whom she bewitched so as to make her think that this new baby was one of her own children.
Who acts: Queen, new baby, young peasant woman · What happens: carry off, place, bewitch, make, think, be · To what, where: Meantime, Prince, care, young peasant woman, Queen, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, new baby, young peasant woman), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fairy | det |
| 3 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Meantime | appos |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | aux |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 Prince | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Prince | amod |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 castle | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 castle | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 castle | amod |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 placed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 placed | cc |
| 16 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 placed | obj |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 care | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 care | det |
| 20 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 woman | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 woman | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 woman | amod |
| 24 | peasant | peasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 woman | amod |
| 25 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 care | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bewitched | punct |
| 27 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 bewitched | obj |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bewitched | nsubj |
| 29 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 woman | conj |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 as | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 bewitched | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 make | mark |
| 33 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 bewitched | advcl |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 make | obj |
| 35 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 make | xcomp |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 one | mark |
| 37 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 baby | det |
| 38 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 baby | amod |
| 39 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 one | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 one | cop |
| 41 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 think | ccomp |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 children | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 children | nmod:poss |
| 44 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 children | amod |
| 45 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 one | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | past · perfect · passive | Meantime | off the little Prince; to Queen's own castle | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary prince=Value | ||||
| 2 | place | past | Prince | the care of a young peasant woman | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme under care=Destination | ||||
| 3 | bewitch | past | Queen | a young peasant woman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus whom=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | infinitive | Queen not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | this new baby | one | of Queen's own children | tree rules | |||
| 7 | care | a young peasant woman | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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