The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 103
He would trust no one else with its care, and the whole Court soon talked of nothing but the pretty green monkey.
Who acts: King, whole Court, delighted · What happens: trust, talk, care · To what, where: one
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 (King, whole Court, delighted), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 trust | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 trust | aux |
| 3 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trust | obj |
| 6 | else | else | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 care | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 care | nmod:poss |
| 9 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trust | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 talked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 talked | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Court | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Court | amod |
| 14 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 talked | nsubj |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 talked | advmod |
| 16 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 trust | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 nothing | case |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 talked | obl |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 monkey | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 monkey | det |
| 21 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 monkey | amod |
| 22 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 monkey | amod |
| 23 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nothing | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | would | King | no one | with delighted's care | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Recipient with care=Theme | |||
| 2 | talk | past | the whole Court | of nothing; soon property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | care | delighted | nom care «act intransitive»: 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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