The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 17
Zayda gathered quantities of roses, and when all was ready they put the monkey into a large jasper bath, where the mother rubbed him all over with the green liquid.
Who acts: Zayda, all, mother · What happens: gather, be, put, rub · To what, where: quantities, monkey, large jasper bath
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 (Zayda, all, mother), 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 | Zayda | Zayda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gathered | nsubj |
| 2 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quantities | quantity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gathered | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 roses | case |
| 5 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 quantities | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 ready | advmod |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 ready | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ready | cop |
| 11 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 put | advcl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | nsubj |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gathered | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 monkey | det |
| 15 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 bath | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bath | det |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bath | amod |
| 19 | jasper | jasper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bath | compound |
| 20 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rubbed | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 rubbed | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mother | det |
| 24 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rubbed | nsubj |
| 25 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bath | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rubbed | obj |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 over | advmod |
| 28 | over | over | ADV | _ | 25 rubbed | advmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 liquid | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 liquid | det |
| 31 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 liquid | amod |
| 32 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rubbed | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | Zayda | quantities of roses | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | all | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | past | Zayda | the monkey | a large jasper bath | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent monkey=Goal | |||
| 4 | rub | past | the mother | monkey | with the green liquid; over property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with liquid=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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