The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 24
At last the woman came back again, and said in a gruff voice, ‘Good evening, Zachiel; when the young moon shines in the basket, you are freed early, Zachiel.’
Who acts: last woman · What happens: come back, say, free · To what, where: gruff voice, young moon shines · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 voice | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 13 | gruff | gruff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 voice | amod |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 evening | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 evening | punct |
| 17 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 evening | amod |
| 18 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 voice | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Zachiel | punct |
| 20 | Zachiel | Zachiel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 evening | appos |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 freed | punct |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 freed | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shines | det |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 shines | amod |
| 25 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shines | compound |
| 26 | shines | shine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 basket | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 basket | det |
| 29 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shines | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shines | punct |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 freed | aux:pass |
| 33 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | conj |
| 34 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 freed | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Zachiel | punct |
| 36 | Zachiel | Zachiel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 freed | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 38 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the last woman | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a gruff voice and Good evening | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner | |||||
| 3 | free | present · passive | the young moon shines in the basket | Zachiel obl; early property | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source |
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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