The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 14
Here he gently placed her on a lawn, and as he did so she saw a magnificent palace spring up at her feet.
Who acts: pleasure, Princess · What happens: place, do, see up · To what, where: Princess, lawn, feet
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pleasure, Princess), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 placed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 placed | nsubj |
| 3 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 4 placed | advmod |
| 4 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 placed | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 lawn | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lawn | det |
| 8 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 did | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saw | advcl |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 did | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 placed | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 spring | det |
| 18 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 spring | amod |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spring | compound |
| 20 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 saw | compound:prt |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 feet | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 feet | nmod:poss |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 saw | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | pleasure | Princess | a lawn; here | gently property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on lawn=Destination | ||
| 2 | do | past | pleasure | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see up | past | Princess | Princess's feet | spring | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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