The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 62
When they had got over the first rapture of meeting they began to make plans to escape from the power of the Prince of the Air.
Who acts: princes, plans · What happens: get, begin, make, escape · To what, where: first rapture, meeting, plans, power
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 (princes, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 rapture | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rapture | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 rapture | amod |
| 8 | rapture | rapture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 meeting | case |
| 10 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rapture | nmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 meeting | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 escape | mark |
| 17 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 make | xcomp |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 power | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 power | det |
| 20 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 escape | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Prince | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Prince | det |
| 23 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 power | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Air | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Air | det |
| 26 | Air | Air | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Prince | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | princes = prince | the first rapture of meeting | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over rapture=Destination | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | princes = prince | meeting not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | princes = prince not said here | plans | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | escape | to-infinitive | plans not said here | the power of the Prince of the Air | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from power=Initial_Location |
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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