The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 1
One morning, as Prince Alphege’s governess and her daughter were alone together, the little monkey sprang in through an open window.
Who acts: governess, little monkey · What happens: be, spring in · To what, where: open window
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (governess, little monkey), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sprang | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 governess | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 governess | case |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Alphege | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Alphege | Alphege | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 governess | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Alphege | case |
| 8 | governess | governess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 morning | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 daughter | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 governess | conj |
| 12 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 governess | acl |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 12 were | advmod |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 were | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 morning | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 monkey | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 monkey | amod |
| 18 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sprang | nsubj |
| 19 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 sprang | compound:prt |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 window | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 window | det |
| 23 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 window | amod |
| 24 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sprang | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | Alphege Prince's governess and Alphege's daughter not said here | alone, together property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spring in | past | the little monkey | a open window | morning | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Trajectory |
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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