The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 6
In the midst of this forest she built a palace which had not its equal for beauty in the whole world, and then she considered that she had done enough to make any prince happy.
Who acts: mother, palace · What happens: build, have, consider, do, make · To what, where: palace, midst, prince
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 (mother, palace), 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 midst | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 midst | det |
| 3 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 built | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 forest | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 forest | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 midst | nmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 built | nsubj |
| 8 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 built | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 palace | acl:relcl |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 equal | advmod |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 equal | nmod:poss |
| 15 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 had | xcomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 beauty | case |
| 17 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 equal | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 world | amod |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beauty | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 considered | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 considered | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 considered | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 considered | nsubj |
| 26 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 built | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 done | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 done | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 done | aux |
| 30 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 considered | xcomp |
| 31 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 30 done | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 make | mark |
| 33 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 done | advcl |
| 34 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 prince | det |
| 35 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 make | obj |
| 36 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 make | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | mother | a palace | the midst of this forest | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Product | |||
| 2 | have | past | a palace | equal property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | consider | past | mother | then | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | mother | enough property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | mother not said here | any prince | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset prince=Product |
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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