The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 38
Alphege threw himself into his arms, and the brothers hastened to the royal palace, where in the presence of the entire court he received the crown from his brother’s hand.
Who acts: Alphege, brothers, King · What happens: throw, hasten, receive · To what, where: King, arms, royal palace, crown, presence
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 (Alphege, brothers, 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 | Alphege | Alphege | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 threw | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 arms | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arms | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 threw | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hastened | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hastened | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 brothers | det |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hastened | nsubj |
| 11 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 threw | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 14 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 palace | amod |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hastened | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 received | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 received | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 presence | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 presence | det |
| 20 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 received | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 court | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 court | det |
| 23 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 court | amod |
| 24 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 presence | nmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 received | nsubj |
| 26 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 palace | acl:relcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 crown | det |
| 28 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 received | obj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 hand | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 brother | nmod:poss |
| 31 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hand | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 brother | case |
| 33 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 received | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Alphege | King | into King's arms result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer himself=Theme into arm=Result | |||
| 2 | hasten | participle | the brothers | the royal palace | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to palace=Destination | ||||
| 3 | receive | past | King | the crown | the presence of the entire court | from King's brother's hand | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent crown=Theme from hand=Source |
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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