The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 42

She assured him that the Fairy of the Mountain had henceforth lost all power over him, and after spending some time with the young couple, and bestowing the most costly presents on them, she retired to her own country.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: assure, lose, spend, bestow, retire · To what, where: King, Fairy, costly presents

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), 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	2 assured	nsubj
2	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 assured	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 lost	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fairy	det
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 lost	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Mountain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mountain	det
9	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Fairy	nmod
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lost	aux
11	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	_	12 lost	advmod
12	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 assured	ccomp
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 power	det
14	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lost	obj
15	over	over	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lost	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 retired	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 retired	cc
19	after	after	SCONJ	_	20 spending	mark
20	spending	spend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 retired	advcl
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spending	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 couple	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 couple	det
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 couple	amod
26	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spending	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bestowing	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bestowing	cc
29	bestowing	bestow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 spending	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 presents	det
31	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	32 costly	advmod
32	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 presents	amod
33	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bestowing	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 presents	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spending	punct
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 retired	nsubj
38	retired	retire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 assured	conj
39	to	to	ADP	_	42 country	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 country	nmod:poss
41	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 country	amod
42	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 retired	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 assured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	assure	past	Queen		King			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lose	past · perfect · passive		the Fairy of the Mountain			over King; henceforth property	tree rules
3	spend	gerund	Queen not said here			time	with the young couple	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	bestow	gerund	Queen not said here	the costly presents			on presents = present	tree rules
5	retire	past	Queen				to Queen's own country	vn resign-10.11-1 «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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