The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 29
In this way the good fairy hoped that the Prince would be protected against all dangers.
Who acts: good fairy · What happens: hope, protect · To what, where: way, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (good fairy), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hoped | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fairy | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fairy | amod |
| 6 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hoped | nsubj |
| 7 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 protected | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 protected | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 protected | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 protected | aux:pass |
| 13 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hoped | ccomp |
| 14 | against | against | ADP | _ | 16 dangers | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 dangers | det |
| 16 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 protected | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hoped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past | the good fairy | this way | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | protect | would · passive | the Prince | against all dangers | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary against danger=Theme |
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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