The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 72
In due time a second Prince was born, and the Queen was devoured with rage at the thought that Prince Alphege came between her son and the throne.
Who acts: Alphege · What happens: bear, devour, come · To what, where: second Prince, Queen, thought
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 (Alphege), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 born | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 Prince | amod |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 born | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 born | aux:pass |
| 8 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 devoured | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 devoured | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Queen | det |
| 12 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 devoured | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 devoured | aux:pass |
| 14 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 born | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 rage | case |
| 16 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 devoured | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 thought | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thought | det |
| 19 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 devoured | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 came | obl |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Alphege | nmod:desc |
| 22 | Alphege | Alphege | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 thought | acl:relcl |
| 24 | between | between | ADP | _ | 26 son | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 son | nmod:poss |
| 26 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 throne | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 throne | det |
| 29 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 son | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | a second Prince | time | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | devour | past · passive | the Queen | the thought | with rage | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | come | past | Alphege Prince | the thought | between Queen's son and the throne | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between son=Location |
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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