The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 4
Anyone who picked an apple gained admittance into the golden castle, and there in a silver room sat an enchanted Princess of surpassing fairness and beauty.
Who acts: Anyone, apple, enchanted Princess · What happens: pick, gain, sit, enchant, surpass · To what, where: admittance, golden castle, enchanted Princess, fairness
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 (Anyone, apple, enchanted 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 | Anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 apple | det |
| 5 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gained | nsubj |
| 6 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | ccomp |
| 7 | admittance | admittance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gained | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 castle | amod |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gained | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sat | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 sat | expl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 room | det |
| 17 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 room | compound |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 there | obl |
| 19 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Princess | det |
| 21 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 Princess | amod |
| 22 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sat | obj |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 surpassing | mark |
| 24 | surpassing | surpass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 Princess | acl |
| 25 | fairness | fairness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 surpassing | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 beauty | cc |
| 27 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fairness | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | past | Anyone | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gain | past | a apple | admittance | the golden castle | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admittance=Theme | |||
| 3 | sit | past | Anyone not said here | a enchanted Princess | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location princess=Theme | |||
| 4 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | surpass | gerund | a enchanted Princess not said here | fairness and beauty | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fairness=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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