The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 24
She had felt sure from the first that her son’s pet monkey was no other than Prince Alphege, and she longed to put an end to him.
Who acts: Queen, pet monkey · What happens: feel, be, long, put · To what, where: end, Prince
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 (Queen, pet 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | aux |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 felt | xcomp |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 first | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 first | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 felt | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 other | mark |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 monkey | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 son | case |
| 12 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 monkey | compound |
| 13 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 other | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 other | cop |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 first | acl |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 Alphege | case |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Alphege | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Alphege | Alphege | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 other | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 longed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 longed | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 longed | nsubj |
| 23 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 put | mark |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 longed | xcomp |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 end | det |
| 27 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 put | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · perfect | Queen | first, sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Queen's son's pet monkey | than Alphege Prince; other property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | long | past | Queen | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | a end | Prince | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal |
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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