The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 18
Their suspense was not long, for suddenly the monkey skin dropped off, and there stood Prince Alphege, the handsomest and most charming of men.
Who acts: suspense · What happens: not be, drop off, stand · To what, where: monkey skin, Alphege
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 (suspense), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 suspense | nmod:poss |
| 2 | suspense | suspense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 long | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 skin | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 skin | case |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 11 skin | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 skin | det |
| 10 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skin | compound |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 long | conj |
| 12 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 skin | acl |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 dropped | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stood | cc |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 stood | advmod |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | conj |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Alphege | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Alphege | Alphege | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 charming | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 charming | det |
| 22 | handsomest | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 charming | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 charming | cc |
| 24 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 charming | amod |
| 25 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Alphege | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 men | case |
| 27 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 charming | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Zayda's suspense | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drop off | participle | the monkey skin not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | Zayda's suspense not said here | Alphege Prince | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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