The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 77
Then the witch flew into a great rage, and screamed out, ‘What! you’ll kill my dog, will you?’ and the next moment he was turned to stone and lay there immovable, whilst his bride waited for him in vain and thought to herself, ‘Alas! no doubt the evil I feared, and which has made my heart so heavy, has befallen him.’
Who acts: witch, bride, doubt · What happens: fly, scream out, kill, turn, lay, wait · To what, where: great rage, dog, next moment, stone, immovable, vain
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, bride, doubt), 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 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 rage | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rage | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rage | amod |
| 8 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 screamed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 screamed | cc |
| 11 | screamed | scream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 flew | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 screamed | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kill | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 kill | punct |
| 15 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 kill | nsubj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 What | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 kill | nsubj |
| 18 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 kill | aux |
| 19 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 flew | parataxis |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 dog | nmod:poss |
| 21 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kill | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 will | punct |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 kill | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 will | nsubj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 kill | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 kill | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 turned | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 moment | det |
| 29 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 moment | amod |
| 30 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 turned | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 turned | aux:pass |
| 33 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 flew | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 stone | case |
| 35 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turned | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 lay | cc |
| 37 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 turned | conj |
| 38 | there | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes | 39 immovable | nmod:poss |
| 39 | immovable | immovable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 lay | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 waited | punct |
| 41 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 44 waited | mark |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 bride | nmod:poss |
| 43 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 waited | nsubj |
| 44 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 lay | advcl |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 him | case |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 waited | obl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 vain | case |
| 48 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 waited | obl |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 thought | cc |
| 50 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 turned | conj |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 herself | case |
| 52 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 50 thought | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 feared | punct |
| 54 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 62 feared | punct |
| 55 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 62 feared | discourse |
| 56 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 62 feared | punct |
| 57 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 58 doubt | det |
| 58 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 feared | nsubj |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 evil | det |
| 60 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 feared | nsubj |
| 61 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 62 feared | nsubj |
| 62 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 67 made | punct |
| 64 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 67 made | cc |
| 65 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 67 made | nsubj:pass |
| 66 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 67 made | aux |
| 67 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 flew | conj |
| 68 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 69 heart | nmod:poss |
| 69 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 made | obj |
| 70 | so | so | ADV | _ | 71 heavy | advmod |
| 71 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 67 made | xcomp |
| 72 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 74 befallen | punct |
| 73 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 74 befallen | aux |
| 74 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 flew | conj |
| 75 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 74 befallen | obj |
| 76 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
| 77 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the witch | then | into a great rage result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result | |||
| 2 | scream out speech: express | participle | the witch not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kill | future | my dog | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | |||||
| 4 | turn | past · passive | the next moment | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to stone=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | lay | infinitive | there's immovable | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent immovable=Result | |||||
| 6 | wait | past | dog's bride | vain | for dog | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vain=Location | |||
| 7 | think speech: other | participle | bride | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | fear | past | no doubt | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | make | present · perfect · passive | my heart | heavy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary heart=Product | ||||
| 10 | befall | present · perfect | the witch not said here | dog | tree rules |
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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