The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 21
His only comfort had been in visits from the Good Queen, who had at length put him in the way of meeting his brother.
Who acts: only comfort, Good Queen, way, Prince · What happens: be, put, meet, comfort · To what, where: visits, Prince, length, brother
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 (only comfort, Good Queen, way, Prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:1573): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 comfort | nmod:poss |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 comfort | amod |
| 3 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 visits | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 visits | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 visits | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 visits | case |
| 7 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Queen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queen | det |
| 10 | Good | Good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Queen | amod |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 visits | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 put | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 put | aux |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 length | case |
| 16 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 Queen | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 way | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 meeting | mark |
| 23 | meeting | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 way | acl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 brother | nmod:poss |
| 25 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 meeting | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 visits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | Prince's only comfort | visits | from the Good Queen | tree rules | |||
| 2 | put | past · perfect | the Good Queen | Prince | length | in the way | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme at length=Destination | ||
| 3 | meet | gerund | the way not said here | Prince's brother | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | comfort | Prince | nom comfort «state transitive»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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