The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 36
He had already spent several months in this condition when the Prince of the Air whirled her away, to the grief and despair of every man on the island.
Who acts: most, Prince · What happens: spend, whirl away · To what, where: condition, Princess, grief
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 (most, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spent | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 spent | advmod |
| 4 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 months | amod |
| 6 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spent | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 condition | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 condition | det |
| 9 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spent | obl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 whirled | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 whirled | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Air | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Air | det |
| 15 | Air | Air | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Prince | nmod |
| 16 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spent | advcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 whirled | obj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 whirled | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 grief | punct |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 grief | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 grief | det |
| 22 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 whirled | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 despair | cc |
| 24 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grief | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 man | case |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 man | det |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grief | nmod |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 island | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 island | det |
| 30 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 man | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past · perfect | most | this condition | month | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | whirl away | past | the Prince of the Air | Princess | the grief of every man on the island and despair | away property | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme to grief=Destination |
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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