The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 68

The Prince approached the altar and opened the book, which contained the names of all the lovers in the world: and in it he read that Rosalie had been carried off by the Prince of the Air to an abyss which had no entrance except the one that lay by way of the Fountain of Gold.

Who acts: Prince, book, abyss, one · What happens: approach, open, contain, read, carry off, have · To what, where: altar, book, names, Rosalie, abyss, entrance

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 (Prince, book, abyss, one), 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	3 approached	nsubj
3	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 altar	det
5	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 approached	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 opened	cc
7	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 approached	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 book	det
9	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opened	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 contained	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 contained	nsubj
12	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 book	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 names	det
14	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 contained	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 lovers	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 lovers	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lovers	det
18	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 names	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 world	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 world	det
21	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lovers	nmod
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 read	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 read	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 read	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 read	nsubj
27	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 approached	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 carried	mark
29	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 carried	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 carried	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 carried	aux:pass
32	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 read	advcl
33	off	off	ADP	_	32 carried	compound:prt
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 Prince	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Prince	det
36	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 carried	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 Air	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Air	det
39	Air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carried	obl
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 abyss	case
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 abyss	det
42	abyss	abyss	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carried	obl
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 had	nsubj
44	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 abyss	acl:relcl
45	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	46 entrance	det
46	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 had	obj
47	except	except	ADP	_	49 one	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 one	det
49	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 entrance	nmod
50	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 lay	nsubj
51	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 one	acl:relcl
52	by	by	ADP	_	53 way	case
53	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 lay	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 Fountain	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Fountain	det
56	Fountain	Fountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 way	nmod
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 Gold	case
58	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 Fountain	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach	past	the Prince	the altar			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent altar=Theme
2	open	past	the Prince not said here	the book			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme
3	contain	past	the book	the names of all lovers in the world			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot name=Theme
4	read	past	Prince		book		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	carry off	past · perfect · passive	the Prince	Rosalie	a abyss	of the Air	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme of air=Initial_Location to abyss=Destination
6	have	past	a abyss	no entrance		except the one	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entrance=Patient
7	lie	past	the one			by way of the Fountain of Gold	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by way=Location
8	name			all lovers in the world			nom name «communication 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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