The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 49
She did not speak, so he drew a feather from his wing, and she beheld before her a Prince of such surpassing beauty that it was impossible not to hope that she might owe her liberty to so charming a person.
Who acts: Princess, parrot · What happens: not speak, draw, behold, surpass, be, not hope · To what, where: feather, wing, Prince, liberty, person · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Princess, parrot), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 speak | advmod |
| 4 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 drew | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 drew | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drew | nsubj |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 feather | det |
| 10 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drew | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 wing | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wing | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drew | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beheld | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 beheld | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 beheld | nsubj |
| 17 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drew | conj |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 beheld | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 beheld | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 beauty | case |
| 23 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 beauty | amod |
| 24 | surpassing | surpass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 beauty | amod |
| 25 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Prince | nmod |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 impossible | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 impossible | expl |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 impossible | cop |
| 29 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beheld | conj |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 hope | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 hope | mark |
| 32 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 impossible | csubj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 owe | mark |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 owe | nsubj |
| 35 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 owe | aux |
| 36 | owe | owe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 hope | ccomp |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 liberty | nmod:poss |
| 38 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 owe | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 charming | mark |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 charming | advmod |
| 41 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 owe | advcl |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 person | det |
| 43 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 charming | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | past · do-support | Princess | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | draw | past | parrot | a feather | parrot's wing | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent feather=Theme from wing=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | behold | past | Princess | a Prince of such surpassing beauty | before mother | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | surpass | gerund | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | Princess not said here | impossible property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not hope | to-infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | owe | might | Princess | Princess's liberty | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent liberty=Theme | ||||
| 8 | charm | gerund | Princess not said here | a person | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus person=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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