The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 48
No sooner had they heard of this presumptuous name than they resolved to gain possession of her who bore it, and either to torment her cruelly, or at least to conceal her from the eyes of all men.
Who acts: hatred, possession · What happens: have, hear, resolve, gain, bear, torment · To what, where: possession, name, cruelly, child, least
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 (hatred, possession), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 name | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 name | det |
| 8 | presumptuous | presumptuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 name | amod |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 resolved | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 resolved | nsubj |
| 12 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 gain | mark |
| 14 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 resolved | xcomp |
| 15 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gain | obj |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 bore | mark |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bore | nmod:poss |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 bore | nsubj |
| 19 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 possession | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bore | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 torment | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 torment | cc |
| 23 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 torment | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 torment | mark |
| 25 | torment | torment | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 cruelly | nmod:poss |
| 27 | cruelly | cruelly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 torment | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 conceal | punct |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 conceal | cc |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 least | case |
| 31 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 conceal | obl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 conceal | mark |
| 33 | conceal | conceal | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 torment | conj |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 conceal | obj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 eyes | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 eyes | det |
| 37 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 conceal | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 men | case |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 men | det |
| 40 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 eyes | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | hatred | of this presumptuous name | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of name=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | resolve | past | hatred | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | gain | to-infinitive | hatred not said here | possession | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bear | past | possession | name | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | torment | to-infinitive | child's cruelly | either property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cruelly=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | conceal | to-infinitive | child | least | from the eyes of all men | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Patient from eye=Beneficiary |
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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