The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 55
The old Fairy led her to a pretty room which she said should be hers, at the same time giving her the strictest orders never to let out the fire which was burning brightly in the grate.
Who acts: old Fairy, child, same time, fire · What happens: lead, say, be, give, not let out, burn · To what, where: child, pretty room, dog, strictest orders, fire, grate · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old Fairy, child, same time, fire), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fairy | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Fairy | amod |
| 3 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 led | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 8 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 room | amod |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 said | obj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 room | acl:relcl |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 hers | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hers | cop |
| 15 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 time | punct |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 let | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 time | acl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 giving | iobj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 orders | det |
| 24 | strictest | strict | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 orders | amod |
| 25 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 giving | obj |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 let | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 let | mark |
| 28 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | parataxis |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 let | compound:prt |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 fire | det |
| 31 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 let | obj |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 burning | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 burning | aux |
| 34 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 fire | acl:relcl |
| 35 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 34 burning | advmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 grate | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 grate | det |
| 38 | grate | grate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 burning | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the old Fairy | child | a pretty room | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to room=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | child | a pretty room | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | should | dog | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | give | gerund | the same time not said here | the strictest orders | child | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient order=Theme | |||
| 5 | not let out | to-infinitive | the fire | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 6 | burn | past · progressive | the fire | the grate | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grate=Location |
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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