The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 69
She built herself a magnificent palace, to which she transported her books and fairy secrets, and where she enjoyed the sight of the perfect happiness she had helped to bestow on the entire royal family.
Who acts: Fairy, perfect happiness · What happens: build, transport, enjoy, help, bestow, sight · To what, where: Fairy, books, sight, perfect happiness, entire royal family
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 (Fairy, perfect happiness), 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 | 2 built | nsubj |
| 2 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 built | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 5 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 palace | amod |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 built | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 transported | punct |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 transported | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 transported | nsubj |
| 11 | transported | transport | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 built | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 books | nmod:poss |
| 13 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 transported | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 secrets | cc |
| 15 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 secrets | compound |
| 16 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 books | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 enjoyed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 enjoyed | cc |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 enjoyed | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 21 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 built | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sight | det |
| 23 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 enjoyed | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 happiness | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 happiness | det |
| 26 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 happiness | amod |
| 27 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sight | nmod |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 helped | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 helped | aux |
| 30 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 happiness | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 bestow | mark |
| 32 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 helped | xcomp |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 family | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 family | det |
| 35 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 family | amod |
| 36 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 family | amod |
| 37 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bestow | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | Fairy | Fairy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset herself=Beneficiary palace=Product | ||||
| 2 | transport | past | Fairy | Fairy's books and fairy secrets | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme to which=Destination | ||||
| 3 | enjoy | past | Fairy | the sight of the perfect happiness | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | help | past · perfect | Fairy | the perfect happiness not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent happiness=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bestow | to-infinitive | the perfect happiness not said here | the entire royal family | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sight | the perfect happiness | nom sight «cognition 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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