The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 86
Happily, he soon found out the secret of the passage and entered the cabinet of the present, where he saw reflected in the mirrors the unfortunate Rosalie sitting on the floor weeping bitterly, and surrounded with genii, who never left her night or day.
Who acts: spite, mirrors, genii · What happens: find out, enter, see, reflect, sit, weep · To what, where: secret, cabinet, mirrors, floor
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 (spite, mirrors, genii), 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 | Happily | happily | ADV | _ | 5 found | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Happily | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 found | advmod |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 found | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 secret | det |
| 8 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 passage | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 passage | det |
| 11 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 secret | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 entered | cc |
| 13 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cabinet | det |
| 15 | cabinet | cabinet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 entered | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 present | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 present | det |
| 18 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cabinet | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 saw | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 present | acl:relcl |
| 23 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 saw | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 mirrors | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mirrors | det |
| 26 | mirrors | mirror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 reflected | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Rosalie | det |
| 28 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Rosalie | amod |
| 29 | Rosalie | Rosalie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 mirrors | nmod |
| 30 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 mirrors | acl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 floor | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 floor | det |
| 33 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sitting | obl |
| 34 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 sitting | advcl |
| 35 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 34 weeping | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 surrounded | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 surrounded | cc |
| 38 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 saw | conj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 genii | case |
| 40 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 left | punct |
| 42 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 left | nsubj |
| 43 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 44 left | advmod |
| 44 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 genii | acl:relcl |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 night | nmod:poss |
| 46 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 left | obj |
| 47 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 48 day | cc |
| 48 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 night | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | past | spite | the secret of the passage | happily, soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic | |||
| 2 | enter | past | spite not said here | the cabinet of the present | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cabinet=Destination | ||||
| 3 | see | past | spite | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | reflect | participle | spite not said here | the mirrors the unfortunate Rosalie | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sit | gerund | the mirrors the unfortunate Rosalie not said here | the floor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location | ||||
| 6 | weep | gerund | the mirrors the unfortunate Rosalie not said here | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | surround | participle | spite not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | not leave | past | genii | night | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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