The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 43
‘Alas, my love,’ she replied, ‘over there lies the granite mountain where the costly precious stones grow.
Who acts: love, costly precious stones, my · What happens: reply, lie, grow, love · To what, where: granite mountain
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love, costly precious stones, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 love | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 love | nmod:poss |
| 5 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lies | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 there | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 there | punct |
| 12 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 there | advmod |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 replied | advmod |
| 14 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mountain | det |
| 16 | granite | granite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mountain | compound |
| 17 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lies | obj |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 grow | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stones | det |
| 20 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stones | amod |
| 21 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stones | amod |
| 22 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 grow | nsubj |
| 23 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | my love | there | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | the granite mountain | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mountain=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | present | the costly precious stones | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | love | my | nom love «feeling 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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