The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 83
Prince Alphege was at this time fourteen years old, and the handsomest and most engaging youth imaginable.
Who acts: Alphege, most · What happens: be, engage · To what, where: youth
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, most), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Alphege | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Alphege | Alphege | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 time | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 old | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 handsomest | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 handsomest | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 handsomest | det |
| 13 | handsomest | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 time | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 engaging | cc |
| 15 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 engaging | nsubj |
| 16 | engaging | engage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 handsomest | conj |
| 17 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 engaging | obj |
| 18 | imaginable | imaginable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 engaging | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Alphege Prince | at this time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | engage | gerund | most | youth | imaginable property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Patient |
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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