The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 83
Her delight was complete when her brother (who had killed the Magician under the form of a bull) was seen coming from the forest in his proper shape, and that very day, according to her promise, she gave her hand in marriage to the happy young tailor.
Who acts: delight, brother, couple · What happens: be, kill, see, come, accord, give · To what, where: brother, form, forest, hand, happy young tailor, marriage
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 (delight, brother, couple), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 delight | nmod:poss |
| 2 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 complete | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 complete | cop |
| 4 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 seen | mark |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seen | nsubj |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 killed | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 killed | aux |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 brother | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Magician | det |
| 13 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 killed | obj |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 form | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 form | det |
| 16 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 killed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bull | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bull | det |
| 19 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 form | nmod |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 bull | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux:pass |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 complete | advcl |
| 23 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 seen | xcomp |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 forest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 forest | det |
| 26 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 coming | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 shape | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 shape | nmod:poss |
| 29 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 shape | amod |
| 30 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 forest | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 day | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 day | cc |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 day | det |
| 34 | very | very | ADV | _ | 35 day | advmod |
| 35 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 complete | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 promise | punct |
| 37 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 promise | case |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 according | fixed |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 promise | nmod:poss |
| 40 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 complete | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 gave | punct |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 gave | nsubj |
| 43 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 promise | acl:relcl |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 hand | nmod:poss |
| 45 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 gave | obj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 marriage | case |
| 47 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 gave | obl |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 tailor | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 tailor | det |
| 50 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 tailor | amod |
| 51 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 tailor | amod |
| 52 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 gave | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 complete | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | couple's delight | complete property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · perfect · passive | couple's brother | the form of a bull | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer magician=Result | ||||
| 3 | see | past · passive | couple's brother | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come | gerund | couple's brother not said here | the forest in brother's proper shape | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | give | past | couple | couple's hand | the happy young tailor | marriage | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to tailor=Recipient | ||
| 7 | delight | couple | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | form | a bull | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | promise | couple | nom promise «communication 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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