The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 13
No sooner had the eyes of the Prince of the Air rested on her than he forgot all the terrible woes which had been prophesied to him ever since he was born, for in one single moment the plans of years are often upset.
Who acts: eyes, King, plans · What happens: have, rest, forget, prophesy, bear, be · To what, where: girl, terrible woes, King, one single moment, years
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, King, plans), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eyes | det |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rested | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Prince | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 eyes | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Air | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Air | det |
| 11 | Air | Air | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Prince | nmod |
| 12 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 rested | obj |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 forgot | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 forgot | nsubj |
| 17 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rested | advcl |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 woes | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 woes | det |
| 20 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 woes | amod |
| 21 | woes | woe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 forgot | obj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 prophesied | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 prophesied | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 prophesied | aux:pass |
| 25 | prophesied | prophesy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 woes | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 prophesied | obl |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 prophesied | advmod |
| 29 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 32 born | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 born | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 born | aux:pass |
| 32 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 prophesied | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 born | punct |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 moment | case |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 moment | case |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 moment | nummod |
| 37 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 moment | amod |
| 38 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 born | obl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 plans | det |
| 40 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 upset | nsubj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 years | case |
| 42 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 plans | nmod |
| 43 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 upset | cop |
| 44 | often | often | ADV | _ | 45 upset | advmod |
| 45 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 moment | acl:relcl |
| 46 | . | . | 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 | rest | past | the eyes of the Prince of the Air | girl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location her=Theme | ||||
| 3 | forget | past | King | all terrible woes | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | prophesy | past · perfect · passive | all terrible woes | King | ever | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | bear | past · passive | King | moment | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | present | the plans of years | one single moment not said here | often, upset property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | plan | years | nom plan «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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