The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 46
Then she sat down on a stone, desired the young man to come near, and, giving him an affectionate kiss, she said, ‘My long-hoped-for deliverer, kind heaven has led you to me, and has at length put an end to all my sufferings.
Who acts: Quick, my · What happens: sit down, desire, come, give, say, lead · To what, where: stone, young man, affectionate kiss, man, long hoped deliverer, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quick, my), 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 | 3 sat | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 stone | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stone | det |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 desired | punct |
| 9 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 desired | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 desired | advcl |
| 15 | near | near | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 giving | punct |
| 19 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 said | ccomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 giving | iobj |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 kiss | det |
| 22 | affectionate | affectionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 kiss | amod |
| 23 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 giving | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 giving | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 28 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
| 29 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 deliverer | nmod:poss |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 deliverer | amod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 long | punct |
| 32 | hoped | hoped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 deliverer | amod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 deliverer | punct |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 deliverer | case |
| 35 | deliverer | deliverer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 led | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 heaven | punct |
| 37 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 heaven | amod |
| 38 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 deliverer | conj |
| 39 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 led | aux |
| 40 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sat | parataxis |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 led | obj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 me | case |
| 43 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 led | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 has | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 has | cc |
| 46 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 47 | at | at | ADP | _ | 48 length | case |
| 48 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 put | obl |
| 49 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 has | parataxis |
| 50 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 end | det |
| 51 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 put | obj |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 sufferings | case |
| 53 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 55 sufferings | det:predet |
| 54 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 sufferings | nmod:poss |
| 55 | sufferings | suffering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 put | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Quick | a stone | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location | |||
| 2 | desire | past | Quick not said here | the young man | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot man=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | Quick not said here | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | gerund | a affectionate kiss | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kiss=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Quick | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | lead | present · perfect · passive | My long hoped deliverer and kind heaven | me | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | have | present | Quick not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | put | past | a end | length | to my sufferings | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent end=Theme at length=Destination | |||
| 9 | suffer | my | nom suffering «state intransitive»: 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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