The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 31
Then the Enchanter found him in an instant, and seeing his pitiable condition, ran hither and thither without a word, until he had collected a handful of magic herbs, with which, and a few incantations, he speedily made the King whole and sound again.
Who acts: Enchanter, seeing, few incantations · What happens: find, see, run, collect, make, sound · To what, where: King, instant, pitiable condition, handful
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Enchanter, seeing, few incantations), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 found | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Enchanter | det |
| 3 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 instant | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 instant | det |
| 8 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 11 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 ran | csubj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 condition | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pitiable | pitiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 condition | amod |
| 14 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seeing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seeing | punct |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | conj |
| 17 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 16 ran | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thither | cc |
| 19 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 17 hither | conj |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 word | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 word | det |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 collected | punct |
| 24 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 collected | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 collected | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 collected | aux |
| 27 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 ran | parataxis |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 handful | det |
| 29 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 collected | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 herbs | case |
| 31 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 herbs | amod |
| 32 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 handful | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 which | punct |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 which | case |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 collected | obl:agent |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 made | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 made | cc |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 incantations | det |
| 39 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 incantations | amod |
| 40 | incantations | incantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 made | nsubj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 incantations | punct |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 made | nsubj |
| 43 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 44 made | advmod |
| 44 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | parataxis |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 King | det |
| 46 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 made | obj |
| 47 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 made | xcomp |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 sound | cc |
| 49 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 made | conj |
| 50 | again | again | ADV | _ | 49 sound | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the Enchanter | King | a instant | then | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||
| 2 | see | gerund | Enchanter's pitiable condition | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer condition=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | run | past | seeing | without a word; hither property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | collect | past · perfect | Enchanter | a handful of magic herbs | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | past | a few incantations | the King | speedily, whole property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset king=Product | |||
| 6 | sound | present | a few incantations not said here | again | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | condition | Enchanter | nom condition «state transitive»: poss=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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