The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 108
The eldest, who was quick and lively, with a vivid imagination, she made Lord of Fire, which was in her opinion the noblest of all the elements.
Who acts: Fairy, Lord · What happens: be, make · To what, where: eldest, opinion
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (Fairy, Lord), 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 | 2 eldest | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 made | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quick | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 quick | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 quick | cop |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 eldest | parataxis |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lively | cc |
| 8 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 quick | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 imagination | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 imagination | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 imagination | det |
| 12 | vivid | vivid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 imagination | amod |
| 13 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quick | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 eldest | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Fire | case |
| 19 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Lord | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 opinion | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 opinion | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 opinion | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 opinion | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 25 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Lord | appos |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 noblest | det |
| 27 | noblest | noble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 opinion | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 elements | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 elements | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 elements | det |
| 31 | elements | element | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 noblest | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | quick property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | make | past | Fairy | the eldest | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Product | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Lord of Fire | Fairy's opinion | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | Lord of Fire not said here | of all elements | 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 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/15/108/