The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 11
The following night the elder lady dreamt that she saw the Good Queen, who said, ‘Do not weep any longer but follow my directions.
Who acts: elder lady, child, Good Queen · What happens: follow, dreamt, see, say, not weep · To what, where: Good Queen, directions · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (elder lady, child, Good 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dreamt | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 5 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lady | amod |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dreamt | nsubj |
| 7 | dreamt | dreamt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 saw | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dreamt | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Queen | det |
| 12 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Queen | amod |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Queen | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 weep | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 weep | punct |
| 19 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 weep | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 weep | advmod |
| 21 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 22 | any | any | ADV | _ | 23 longer | advmod |
| 23 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 weep | advmod |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 follow | cc |
| 25 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 weep | conj |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 directions | nmod:poss |
| 27 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 follow | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dreamt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | dreamt | past | the elder lady | night | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past | child | the Good Queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Good Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not weep | infinitive · do-support | long property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | follow | infinitive | my directions | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=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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