The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 89
In a moment he felt the Princess’s hand in his, for she had always kept her magic pebble in her mouth, in spite of the prayers and entreaties of the Prince of the Air to make herself visible.
Who acts: Prince, desire · What happens: feel, keep, make, spite · To what, where: hand, magic pebble, mouth, desire, prayers
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, desire), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Princess | case |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | obj |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 kept | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 kept | nmod:poss |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kept | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 kept | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 kept | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 kept | aux |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 kept | advmod |
| 17 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 felt | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 pebble | nmod:poss |
| 19 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pebble | amod |
| 20 | pebble | pebble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kept | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 mouth | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pebble | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 spite | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 spite | case |
| 26 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kept | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 prayers | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 prayers | det |
| 29 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 spite | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 entreaties | cc |
| 31 | entreaties | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 prayers | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Prince | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Prince | det |
| 34 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 entreaties | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Air | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Air | det |
| 37 | Air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Prince | nmod |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 make | mark |
| 39 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 kept | advcl |
| 40 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 make | obj |
| 41 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 make | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Prince | the Princess's hand | moment | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep | past · perfect | desire | desire's magic pebble | desire's mouth | in spite of the prayers and entreaties of the Prince of the Air; always property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme in spite=Location | ||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | desire not said here | desire | visible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product | |||
| 4 | spite | the prayers and entreaties of the Prince of the Air | nom spite «feeling 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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