The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 50

This Fairy was named Lagree; she was so old that she only had one eye and one tooth left, and even these poor remains she had to keep all night in a strengthening liquid.

Who acts: eldest, poor remains · What happens: name, be, have, leave, keep, strengthen · To what, where: Fairy, one eye, one tooth, poor remains, strengthening liquid

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 (eldest, poor remains), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Fairy	det
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 named	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 named	aux:pass
4	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	Lagree	Lagree	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 named	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 old	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 old	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 old	advmod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 named	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 had	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 had	advmod
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 old	advcl
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 eye	nummod
16	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tooth	cc
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 tooth	nummod
19	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eye	conj
20	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 tooth	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 remains	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 remains	cc
23	even	even	ADV	_	26 remains	advmod
24	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 remains	det
25	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 remains	amod
26	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	10 old	conj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 remains	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 keep	mark
30	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	xcomp
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 night	det
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 keep	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 liquid	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 liquid	det
35	strengthening	strengthen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 liquid	amod
36	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 keep	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 named	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	past · passive		this Fairy				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	past	eldest = eld				old property	tree rules
3	have	past	eldest = eld	one eye and one tooth				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
4	leave	participle		one tooth not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	eldest = eld	this poor remains not said here				tree rules
6	keep	to-infinitive	this poor remains not said here		a strengthening liquid	night		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in liquid=Location
7	strengthen	gerund						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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