The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 57

Several years passed, during which time the Princess grew accustomed to her lonely life, obeyed the Fairy’s orders, and by degrees forgot all about the court of the King her father.

Who acts: Several years, Princess, Fairy · What happens: pass, grow, accustom, obey, forget, order · To what, where: time, orders, court

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 (Several years, Princess, Fairy), 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	Several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 years	amod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 time	punct
5	during	during	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 grew	nsubj
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 time	acl:relcl
11	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 grew	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 life	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 life	nmod:poss
14	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 life	amod
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 accustomed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 obeyed	punct
17	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Fairy	det
19	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 orders	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Fairy	case
21	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 obeyed	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 forgot	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 forgot	cc
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 degrees	case
25	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 forgot	obl
26	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
27	all	all	ADV	_	30 court	advmod
28	about	about	ADP	_	30 court	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 court	det
30	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 forgot	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 King	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 King	det
33	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 court	nmod
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 father	nmod:poss
35	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 forgot	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	Several years		time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	the Princess	which time not said here			tree rules
3	accustom	participle	the Princess not said here			to Princess's lonely life	tree rules
4	obey	past	Several years not said here	the Fairy's orders			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
5	forget	past	Several years not said here	the court of the King		by degrees	tree rules
6	order		the Fairy				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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