The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 48
Three of these were empty except for statues and wonderful things, but in the fourth the Invisible Prince caught sight of Rosalie.
Who acts: Three, fourth · What happens: be, catch, sight · To what, where: sight, Rosalie
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 (Three, fourth), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 empty | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 these | case |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 Three | nmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 empty | cop |
| 5 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | except | except | ADP | _ | 8 statues | case |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 statues | case |
| 8 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 empty | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 things | cc |
| 10 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 statues | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 caught | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 caught | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 fourth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fourth | det |
| 16 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 caught | nsubj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prince | det |
| 18 | Invisible | Invisible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Prince | compound |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 fourth | appos |
| 20 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 empty | parataxis |
| 21 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 caught | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Rosalie | case |
| 23 | Rosalie | Rosalie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sight | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 empty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Three of these | except statues and wonderful things; empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | the fourth | sight of Rosalie | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sight | Rosalie | nom sight «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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