The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 16
The sight of all these happy lovers only made the Prince grieve the more, and he wandered along the seashore spending his days; but one day he was sitting on a rock bewailing his fate, and the impossibility of leaving the island, when all in a moment the sea appeared to raise itself nearly to the skies, and the caves echoed with hideous screams.
Who acts: sight, Prince, impossibility, all, caves · What happens: make, grieve, wander, spend, sit, bewail · To what, where: Prince, more, seashore, rock, fate, island
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, Prince, impossibility, all), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sight | det |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lovers | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 lovers | det:predet |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 lovers | det |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lovers | amod |
| 7 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sight | nmod |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 made | advmod |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | grieve | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 more | det |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 grieve | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wandered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wandered | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wandered | nsubj |
| 18 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | conj |
| 19 | along | along | ADP | _ | 21 seashore | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 seashore | det |
| 21 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wandered | obl |
| 22 | spending | spend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 wandered | advcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 days | nmod:poss |
| 24 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 spending | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 sitting | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 sitting | cc |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 day | nummod |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sitting | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 sitting | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 sitting | aux |
| 31 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 made | conj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 rock | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 rock | det |
| 34 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sitting | obl |
| 35 | bewailing | bewail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 sitting | advcl |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 fate | nmod:poss |
| 37 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bewailing | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 impossibility | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 impossibility | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 impossibility | det |
| 41 | impossibility | impossibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 42 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 43 leaving | mark |
| 43 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 impossibility | acl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 island | det |
| 45 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 leaving | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 appeared | punct |
| 47 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 54 appeared | mark |
| 48 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 54 appeared | nsubj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 moment | case |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 moment | det |
| 51 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 all | nmod |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 sea | det |
| 53 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 moment | nmod |
| 54 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 impossibility | acl:relcl |
| 55 | to | to | PART | _ | 56 raise | mark |
| 56 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 54 appeared | xcomp |
| 57 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 56 raise | obj |
| 58 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 56 raise | advmod |
| 59 | to | to | ADP | _ | 61 skies | case |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 skies | det |
| 61 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 raise | obl |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 66 echoed | punct |
| 63 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 66 echoed | cc |
| 64 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 caves | det |
| 65 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 66 echoed | nsubj |
| 66 | echoed | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | conj |
| 67 | with | with | ADP | _ | 69 screams | case |
| 68 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 69 screams | amod |
| 69 | screams | scream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 66 echoed | obl |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the sight of all happy lovers | the Prince | the impossibility obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grieve | infinitive | the Prince not said here | the more | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus more=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | wander | past | Prince | the seashore | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along seashore=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | spend | gerund | Prince not said here | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sit | past · progressive | Prince | a rock | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | |||
| 6 | bewail | gerund | Prince not said here | Prince's fate | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | leave | gerund | the impossibility not said here | the island | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme | ||||
| 8 | appear | past | all | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 9 | raise | to-infinitive | all not said here | fate | the skies | nearly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Theme to sky=Destination | ||
| 10 | echo | past | the caves | with hideous screams | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with scream=Theme | ||||
| 11 | sight | all happy lovers | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 12 | fate | Prince | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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