The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 33
‘Oh, dearest John,’ replied the girl, ‘give me your hand and set me free from this cursed young man.’
Who acts: dearest · What happens: reply, give, set, curse · To what, where: girl, hand, me
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dearest), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 dearest | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 dearest | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dearest | compound |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dearest | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 dearest | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 set | cc |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 give | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 set | obj |
| 20 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 set | xcomp |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 man | case |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 man | nsubj |
| 23 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 man | amod |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 set | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | dearest | the girl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | your hand | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | me | from cursed young man; free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result | ||||
| 4 | curse | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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