The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 71
His second wife was a Princess of undeniable beauty, but by no means of so amiable a disposition as the first Queen.
Who acts: second wife, no · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: 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 (second wife, no), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 wife | amod |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Princess | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Princess | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 beauty | case |
| 8 | undeniable | undeniable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beauty | amod |
| 9 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Princess | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 means | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 means | cc |
| 12 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 means | mark |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 means | nsubj |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Princess | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 disposition | case |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 amiable | advmod |
| 17 | amiable | amiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 disposition | amod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 disposition | det |
| 19 | disposition | disposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 Queen | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Queen | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 Queen | amod |
| 23 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 disposition | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Princess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | King's second wife | a Princess | of undeniable beauty | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | no | of a amiable disposition as the first Queen | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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