The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 58
It was at this moment that the Invisible Prince appeared, and at the sight of the Prince of the Genii mounting into the air, holding a silken cord, he guessed instantly that he was carrying off Rosalie.
Who acts: fountain, Invisible Prince, sight, Prince · What happens: be, appear, mount, hold, guess, carry off · To what, where: sight, air, silken cord, Rosalie, Prince
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 (fountain, Invisible Prince, sight, Prince), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 moment | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moment | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 appeared | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 8 | Invisible | Invisible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Prince | compound |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | nsubj |
| 10 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moment | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sight | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sight | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 sight | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sight | det |
| 15 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Prince | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Prince | det |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sight | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Genii | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Genii | det |
| 21 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Prince | nmod |
| 22 | mounting | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 sight | acl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 air | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 air | det |
| 25 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mounting | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 holding | punct |
| 27 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 mounting | advcl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 cord | det |
| 29 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cord | amod |
| 30 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 holding | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 guessed | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 guessed | nsubj |
| 33 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moment | parataxis |
| 34 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 33 guessed | advmod |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 carrying | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 carrying | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 carrying | aux |
| 38 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 guessed | advcl |
| 39 | off | off | ADP | _ | 38 carrying | compound:prt |
| 40 | Rosalie | Rosalie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 carrying | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | fountain | at this moment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | the Invisible Prince | the sight of the Prince of the Genii | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location | ||||
| 3 | mount | gerund | the sight of the Prince of the Genii not said here | the air | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Location | ||||
| 4 | hold | gerund | the sight of the Prince of the Genii not said here | a silken cord | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme | ||||
| 5 | guess | past | Prince | instantly property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | carry off | past · progressive | Prince | Rosalie | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rosalie=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sight | the Prince of the Genii | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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