The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 78
She therefore sent the Prince a large and splendid ruby, with injunctions to wear it night and day as it would protect him from all attacks, but added that the talisman only retained its power as long as the Prince remained within his father’s dominions.
Who acts: Queen, ruby, talisman, Prince · What happens: send, wear, protect, add, retain, remain · To what, where: large ruby, Prince, ruby, power
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 (Queen, ruby, talisman, Prince), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ruby | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ruby | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 splendid | cc |
| 9 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 large | conj |
| 10 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 injunctions | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 injunctions | case |
| 13 | injunctions | injunction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 wear | mark |
| 15 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wear | obj |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wear | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 day | cc |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 night | conj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 protect | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 protect | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 protect | aux |
| 23 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wear | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 protect | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 attacks | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 attacks | det |
| 27 | attacks | attack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 protect | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 added | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 added | cc |
| 30 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 retained | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 talisman | det |
| 33 | talisman | talisman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 retained | nsubj |
| 34 | only | only | ADV | _ | 35 retained | advmod |
| 35 | retained | retain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 added | advcl |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 power | nmod:poss |
| 37 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 retained | obj |
| 38 | as | as | ADV | _ | 39 long | advmod |
| 39 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 retained | advmod |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 remained | mark |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Prince | det |
| 42 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 remained | nsubj |
| 43 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 long | advcl |
| 44 | within | within | ADP | _ | 48 dominions | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 father | nmod:poss |
| 46 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 dominions | nmod:poss |
| 47 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 46 father | case |
| 48 | dominions | dominion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 remained | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Queen | a large ruby | the Prince | with injunctions; therefore property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Destination ruby=Theme | ||
| 2 | wear | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | ruby | night | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | protect | would | ruby | Prince | from all attacks | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary from attack=Theme | |||
| 4 | add speech: assert | past | Queen not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | retain | past | the talisman | talisman's power | long property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | remain | past | the Prince | within Prince's father's dominions | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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