The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 55
No sooner had Ferko entered the palace than all eyes were turned on the handsome youth, and the King’s daughter herself was lost in admiration, for she had never seen anyone so handsome in her life before.
Who acts: Ferko, daughter · What happens: have, enter, turn, lose, not see · To what, where: palace, eyes, handsome youth, daughter, admiration, anyone
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (Ferko, daughter), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | nsubj |
| 5 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | obj |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 turned | mark |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 eyes | det |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 turned | aux:pass |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 palace | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 youth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 youth | det |
| 15 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 youth | amod |
| 16 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lost | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lost | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 King | case |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lost | nsubj |
| 23 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 lost | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lost | aux:pass |
| 25 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 admiration | case |
| 27 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lost | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 seen | punct |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 seen | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 seen | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 seen | aux |
| 32 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 seen | advmod |
| 33 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 lost | conj |
| 34 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 33 seen | obj |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 handsome | advmod |
| 36 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 anyone | amod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 life | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 life | nmod:poss |
| 39 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 handsome | obl |
| 40 | before | before | ADV | _ | 36 handsome | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | enter | past | Ferko | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | ||||
| 3 | turn | past · passive | all eyes | the handsome youth | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lose | past · passive | the King's daughter | admiration | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | not see | past · perfect | daughter | anyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Stimulus |
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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