The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 56
She then gave two glass bottles into the Princess’s charge, desiring her to take the greatest care of them, and having enforced her orders with the most awful threats in case of disobedience, she vanished, leaving the little girl at liberty to explore the palace and grounds and a good deal relieved at having only two apparently easy tasks set her.
Who acts: child, two easy tasks, Princess, bottles · What happens: give, desire, take, enforce, vanish, leave · To what, where: two glass bottles, charge, child, greatest care, orders, little girl
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 (child, two easy tasks, Princess, bottles), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 bottles | nummod |
| 5 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bottles | compound |
| 6 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 charge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 charge | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Princess | case |
| 11 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 desiring | punct |
| 13 | desiring | desire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 gave | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 desiring | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 desiring | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 care | det |
| 18 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 care | amod |
| 19 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 care | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 enforced | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 enforced | cc |
| 24 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 enforced | aux |
| 25 | enforced | enforce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 gave | conj |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 orders | nmod:poss |
| 27 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 enforced | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 threats | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 threats | det |
| 30 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 31 awful | advmod |
| 31 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 threats | amod |
| 32 | threats | threat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 enforced | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 case | case |
| 34 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 threats | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 disobedience | case |
| 36 | disobedience | disobedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 case | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 vanished | punct |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 vanished | nsubj |
| 39 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 leaving | punct |
| 41 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 vanished | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 girl | det |
| 43 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 girl | amod |
| 44 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 leaving | obj |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 liberty | case |
| 46 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 leaving | obl |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 explore | mark |
| 48 | explore | explore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 leaving | advcl |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 palace | det |
| 50 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 explore | obj |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 grounds | cc |
| 52 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 50 palace | conj |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 deal | cc |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 deal | det |
| 55 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 deal | amod |
| 56 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 palace | conj |
| 57 | relieved | relieved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 deal | amod |
| 58 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 59 having | mark |
| 59 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 57 relieved | advcl |
| 60 | only | only | ADV | _ | 61 two | advmod |
| 61 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 64 tasks | nummod |
| 62 | apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 63 easy | advmod |
| 63 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 64 tasks | amod |
| 64 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 65 set | nsubj |
| 65 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 59 having | ccomp |
| 66 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 65 set | obj |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | child | two glass bottles | the Princess's charge | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme | ||
| 2 | desire | gerund | child not said here | child | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | child not said here | the greatest care of bottles | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 4 | enforce | gerund · perfect | child not said here | child's orders | with the awful threats in case of disobedience | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | |||
| 5 | vanish | past | child | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | leave | gerund | child not said here | the little girl | liberty | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent girl=Theme at liberty=Location | |||
| 7 | explore | to-infinitive | child not said here | the palace and grounds and a good deal | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent palace=Location | ||||
| 8 | have | gerund | child not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | set | past | two easy tasks | child | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient she=Result | ||||
| 10 | charge | the Princess | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | care | bottles = bottle | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 12 | order | child | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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