The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 91
Speechless and invisible they clung together on the brink, trembling at the frightful tempest the Prince of the Air had raised in his fury.
Who acts: Princesses, frightful tempest, Prince · What happens: cling, tremble, raise, infuriate · To what, where: brink, frightful tempest, Prince, fury
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 (Princesses, frightful tempest, 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 | Speechless | speechless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 invisible | cc |
| 3 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Speechless | conj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 clung | nsubj |
| 5 | clung | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 invisible | acl:relcl |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 clung | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 brink | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brink | det |
| 9 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clung | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trembling | punct |
| 11 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 clung | advcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 tempest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tempest | det |
| 14 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tempest | amod |
| 15 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trembling | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Prince | det |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Air | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Air | det |
| 20 | Air | Air | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Prince | nmod |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 raised | aux |
| 22 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 tempest | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 fury | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 fury | nmod:poss |
| 25 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 raised | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speechless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cling | past | Princesses = princess | the brink | together property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brink=Location | |||
| 2 | tremble | gerund | Princesses = princess not said here | the frightful tempest | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at tempest=Location | ||||
| 3 | raise | past · perfect · passive | the frightful tempest not said here | the Prince of the Air | Prince's fury | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in fury=Destination | |||
| 4 | infuriate | Prince | nom fury «feeling 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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