The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 36
At length the King, recovering from his astonishment at recognising the brother who had been lost some years before, exclaimed, ‘Yes, you are indeed my brother, and now that I have found you, take the throne to which I have no longer a right.’
Who acts: you, I, King · What happens: recover, recognise, lose, exclaim, be, find · To what, where: astonishment, brother, you, throne, length, right
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 (you, I, King), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 take | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 length | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 recovering | punct |
| 6 | recovering | recover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 length | parataxis |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 astonishment | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 9 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recovering | obl |
| 10 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 11 recognising | mark |
| 11 | recognising | recognise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 recovering | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brother | det |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 recognising | obj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 lost | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lost | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 lost | aux:pass |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 brother | acl:relcl |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 years | det |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 before | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | before | before | ADV | _ | 17 lost | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 exclaimed | punct |
| 22 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 lost | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 24 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 brother | punct |
| 25 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 31 brother | discourse |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Yes | punct |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 brother | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 brother | cop |
| 29 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 31 brother | advmod |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 brother | nmod:poss |
| 31 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 found | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 found | cc |
| 34 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 found | advmod |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 found | mark |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 found | nsubj |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 found | aux |
| 38 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 brother | acl:relcl |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 found | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 41 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 throne | det |
| 43 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 take | obj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 which | case |
| 45 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 have | obl |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 have | nsubj |
| 47 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 throne | acl:relcl |
| 48 | no | no | ADV | _ | 49 longer | advmod |
| 49 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 51 right | advmod |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 right | det |
| 51 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 have | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 take | punct |
| 53 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | gerund | King's astonishment | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from astonishment=Source | |||||
| 2 | recognise | gerund | the brother | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | lose | past · perfect · passive | the brother | before property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | exclaim speech: express | participle | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | you | my brother | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | find | present · perfect | I | you | now | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | |||
| 7 | take | imperative | you not said here | the throne | length and my brother | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent throne=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 8 | have | present | I | a right | to the throne | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | |||
| 9 | astonish | King | nom astonishment «feeling 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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