The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 56
The Prince of the Air, in his turn making himself invisible, was led to the fountain, and waited for Rosalie.
Who acts: turn · What happens: make, lead, wait · To what, where: Prince, fountain
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 (turn), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 led | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Air | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Air | det |
| 5 | Air | Air | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turn | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 turn | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 turn | nmod:poss |
| 9 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | appos |
| 10 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 turn | acl |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 making | obj |
| 12 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 making | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 led | aux:pass |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 fountain | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fountain | det |
| 18 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 waited | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 waited | cc |
| 21 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 led | parataxis |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 Rosalie | case |
| 23 | Rosalie | Rosalie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 waited | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | Prince's turn not said here | Prince | invisible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product | |||
| 2 | lead | past · passive | the Prince of the Air | the fountain | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to fountain=Destination | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | for Rosalie | vn exist-47.1 «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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