The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 46
At length heaven granted him a daughter of such remarkable beauty that he could think of no name so appropriate for her as ‘Fairer-than-a-Fairy.’
Who acts: King · What happens: grant, think · To what, where: daughter, King, length heaven
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 (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 | _ | 3 heaven | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heaven | compound |
| 3 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 granted | obl |
| 4 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 granted | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 daughter | det |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 granted | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 beauty | case |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 beauty | amod |
| 10 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 beauty | amod |
| 11 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 daughter | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 think | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 think | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 think | aux |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 granted | advcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 name | case |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 name | det |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 think | obl |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 appropriate | advmod |
| 20 | appropriate | appropriate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 think | ccomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 appropriate | obl |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 Fairy | mark |
| 24 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 Fairy | punct |
| 25 | Fairer | Fairer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Fairy | nsubj |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Fairy | punct |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 31 Fairy | case |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 than | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 Fairy | det |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 a | punct |
| 31 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 appropriate | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 granted | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past | a daughter of such remarkable beauty | King | length heaven | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal daughter=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | could | King | of no name | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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