The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 85
When he outgrew her care her husband was appointed as his tutor and governor, so that he had never been separated from this excellent couple, who loved him as tenderly as they did their only daughter Zayda, and were warmly loved by him in return.
Who acts: Prince, excellent couple, husband, Queen · What happens: outgrow, appoint, not separate, love, do, care · To what, where: care, husband, Prince, daughter, return
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 (Prince, excellent couple, husband, Queen), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 outgrew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 outgrew | nsubj |
| 3 | outgrew | outgrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 appointed | advcl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 care | nmod:poss |
| 5 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 outgrew | obj |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 appointed | aux:pass |
| 9 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 tutor | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tutor | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tutor | tutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appointed | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 governor | cc |
| 14 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tutor | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 separated | punct |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 separated | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 separated | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 separated | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 separated | advmod |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 separated | aux:pass |
| 22 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 appointed | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 couple | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 couple | det |
| 25 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 couple | amod |
| 26 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 separated | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 loved | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 loved | nsubj |
| 29 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 couple | acl:relcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 loved | obj |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | _ | 32 tenderly | advmod |
| 32 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 loved | xcomp |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 did | mark |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 did | nsubj |
| 35 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 tenderly | advcl |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 37 | only | only | ADV | _ | 38 daughter | advmod |
| 38 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 did | obj |
| 39 | Zayda | Zayda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 daughter | appos |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 loved | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 loved | cc |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 loved | aux:pass |
| 43 | warmly | warmly | ADV | _ | 44 loved | advmod |
| 44 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 appointed | conj |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 46 him | case |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 loved | obl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 return | case |
| 48 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 loved | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | outgrow | past | Prince | Queen's care | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appoint | past · passive | Queen's husband | as Prince's tutor and governor | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as tutor=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | not separate | past · perfect · passive | Prince | from this excellent couple | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from couple=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | love | past | this excellent couple | Prince | tenderly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | do | past | husband | husband's daughter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | love | past · passive | Prince | return | warmly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 7 | care | Queen | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=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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