The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 24
The magic mirror had been for about a year in the Prince’s possession, when one day a new subject of disquiet seized upon him.
Who acts: magic mirror, one day, Prince · What happens: have, subject, seize, possess · To what, where: disquiet
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magic mirror, one day, Prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mirror | det |
| 2 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mirror | amod |
| 3 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 had | aux |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 year | case |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 year | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 been | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 possession | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 possession | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Prince | case |
| 14 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 year | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 subject | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 subject | advmod |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 day | nummod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 subject | nsubj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 subject | det |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 subject | amod |
| 21 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 possession | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 disquiet | case |
| 23 | disquiet | disquiet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 subject | nmod |
| 24 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 disquiet | acl |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 seized | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | participle | the magic mirror | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | subject | one day | of disquiet | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seize | participle | disquiet not said here | upon movement | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | possess | the Prince | nom possession «act 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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