The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 62
He added many other tender speeches to this declaration, and the Princess, to whom such remarks were a new experience, could not help feeling pleased and touched by his attentions.
Who acts: Fairer, such remarks, Princess · What happens: add, be, not help, feel, touch, attend · To what, where: many other tender speeches, new experience
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 (Fairer, such remarks, Princess), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 added | nsubj |
| 2 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 speeches | amod |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 speeches | amod |
| 5 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 speeches | compound |
| 6 | speeches | speech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 added | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 declaration | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 declaration | det |
| 9 | declaration | declaration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 added | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 help | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 help | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 help | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 experience | punct |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 whom | case |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 experience | obl |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 remarks | amod |
| 18 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 experience | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 experience | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 experience | det |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 experience | amod |
| 22 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Princess | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Princess | punct |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 help | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 help | advmod |
| 26 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 added | advcl |
| 27 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 help | xcomp |
| 28 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 feeling | xcomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 touched | cc |
| 30 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 pleased | conj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 attentions | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 attentions | nmod:poss |
| 33 | attentions | attention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 touched | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | Fairer | many other tender speeches | to this declaration | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent speech=Patient to declaration=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | such remarks | a new experience | to the Princess | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not help | could | the Princess | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | feel not said to happen | gerund | the Princess not said here | pleased property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | touch | participle | the Princess not said here | by Fairer's attentions | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | attend | Fairer | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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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