The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 10

The sight of her always gave men fresh courage, and they flocked from the four quarters of the globe to attempt the work of rescuing her.

Who acts: sight, knights, work · What happens: give, flock, attempt, rescue · To what, where: fresh courage, men, four quarters, work, Princess

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, knights, work), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sight	det
2	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sight	conj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 gave	advmod
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gave	obj
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 courage	amod
9	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flocked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flocked	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flocked	nsubj
13	flocked	flock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gave	conj
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 quarters	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 quarters	det
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 quarters	nummod
17	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 flocked	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 globe	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 globe	det
20	globe	globe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 quarters	nmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 attempt	mark
22	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 flocked	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 work	det
24	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 attempt	obj
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 rescuing	mark
26	rescuing	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 work	acl
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 rescuing	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	the sight	fresh courage	men		always property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient courage=Theme
2	flock	past	knights = knight			the four quarters of the globe		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	attempt	to-infinitive	knights = knight not said here	the work				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
4	rescue	gerund	the work not said here	Princess				vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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