The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 61
He drew near and told me that through the power of his magic arts he had caused the soft music to waken me, and had made his way through bolts and bars to offer me his hand and heart.
Who acts: door · What happens: draw, tell, cause, waken, make, offer · To what, where: me, that, power, way, bolts, hand · 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 (door), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | near | near | ADV | _ | 2 drew | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 told | cc |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 caused | obj |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 power | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 power | det |
| 10 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 caused | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 arts | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arts | nmod:poss |
| 13 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 arts | amod |
| 14 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 power | nmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 caused | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 caused | aux |
| 17 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 told | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 music | det |
| 19 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 music | amod |
| 20 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 caused | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 waken | mark |
| 22 | waken | waken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 caused | advcl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 waken | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 made | cc |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 made | aux |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 drew | conj |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 way | nmod:poss |
| 29 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obj |
| 30 | through | through | ADP | _ | 31 bolts | case |
| 31 | bolts | bolt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 made | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 bars | cc |
| 33 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 bolts | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 offer | mark |
| 35 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 made | advcl |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 offer | obj |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 hand | nmod:poss |
| 38 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 offer | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 heart | cc |
| 40 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hand | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | door | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | door not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cause | past · perfect | door | that | the power of door's magic arts | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer that=Theme music=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | waken | to-infinitive | door not said here | me | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 5 | make | past · perfect | door not said here | door's way | bolts and bars | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | |||
| 6 | offer | to-infinitive | door not said here | door's hand and heart | me | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal hand=Theme |
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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