The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 47
It never occurred to the good-natured monarch that such a name was certain to call down the hatred and jealousy of the fairies in a body on the child, but this was what happened.
Who acts: Fairy, good natured monarch, this · What happens: not occur, be, call down · To what, where: hatred
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 (Fairy, good natured monarch, this), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 occurred | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 occurred | advmod |
| 3 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 monarch | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 monarch | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 monarch | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 8 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 monarch | amod |
| 9 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 occurred | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 certain | nsubj |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 name | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 name | det |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 certain | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 certain | cop |
| 15 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 monarch | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 call | mark |
| 17 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 certain | advcl |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 call | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hatred | det |
| 20 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 call | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 jealousy | cc |
| 22 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hatred | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 fairies | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fairies | det |
| 25 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 jealousy | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 body | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 body | det |
| 28 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fairies | nmod |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 child | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 child | det |
| 31 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 body | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 happened | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 happened | cc |
| 34 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 happened | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 happened | cop |
| 36 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 37 happened | nsubj |
| 37 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 occurred | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not occur | past | Fairy | to the good natured monarch | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the good natured monarch | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call down speech: assert | to-infinitive | the good natured monarch not said here | the hatred and jealousy of the fairies in a body on the child | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hatred=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | this | happen property | tree rules |
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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