The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 74

At length she could control herself no longer, so she sent a trusty servant to her old and faithful friend the Fairy of the Mountain, to beg her to devise some means by which she might get rid of her stepson.

Who acts: ALPHEGE, some · What happens: control, send, beg, devise, mean, get · To what, where: ALPHEGE, length, trusty servant, old friend · Speech: someone speaks here

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, some), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 control	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 control	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 control	aux
5	control	control	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 control	obj
7	no	no	ADV	_	8 longer	advmod
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 control	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 sent	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sent	nsubj
12	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 control	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 servant	det
14	trusty	trusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 servant	amod
15	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	21 friend	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 friend	nmod:poss
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 friend	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 faithful	cc
20	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 old	conj
21	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Fairy	det
23	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 friend	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Mountain	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Mountain	det
26	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Fairy	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 beg	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 beg	mark
29	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 control	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 beg	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 devise	mark
32	devise	devise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 beg	xcomp
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 means	nsubj
34	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 devise	ccomp
35	by	by	ADP	_	36 which	case
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 get	obl
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 get	nsubj
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 get	aux
39	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 means	ccomp
40	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 get	xcomp
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 stepson	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 stepson	nmod:poss
43	stepson	stepson	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 rid	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 control	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	control	could	ALPHEGE	ALPHEGE		length	long property	vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
2	send	past	ALPHEGE	a trusty servant	ALPHEGE's old friend			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent servant=Theme to friend=Destination
3	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	ALPHEGE not said here		ALPHEGE			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	devise not said to happen	to-infinitive	ALPHEGE not said here					tree rules
5	mean	present	some					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	get	might	ALPHEGE				rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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