English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 30
And ultimately the bespelled heroine is liberated by a liquid, which is applied to her _lips and finger-tips_, just as Childe Rowland's brothers are unspelled.
What happens: bespell, liberate, apply, unspell · To what, where: bespelled heroine, liquid, brothers
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 liberated | cc |
| 2 | ultimately | ultimately | ADV | _ | 7 liberated | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heroine | det |
| 4 | bespelled | bespell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 heroine | amod |
| 5 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 liberated | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 liberated | aux:pass |
| 7 | liberated | liberate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 liquid | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 liquid | det |
| 10 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 liberated | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 applied | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 applied | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 applied | aux:pass |
| 14 | applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 liquid | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 lips | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lips | nmod:poss |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 lips | punct |
| 18 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 applied | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tips | cc |
| 20 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tips | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 finger | punct |
| 22 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lips | conj |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 liberated | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 unspelled | punct |
| 25 | just | just | ADV | _ | 32 unspelled | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 unspelled | mark |
| 27 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 28 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Childe | flat |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 Childe | case |
| 30 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 unspelled | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 unspelled | aux:pass |
| 32 | unspelled | unspell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 liberated | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 liberated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bespell | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | liberate | present · passive | the bespelled heroine | by a liquid; ultimately property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | apply | present · passive | a liquid | to refusal's lips and finger tips | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | unspell | present · passive | Childe's brothers | 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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