The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 63

The Prince could only appear or speak under the form of a Rainbow, and it was therefore necessary that the sun should shine on water so as to enable the rays to form themselves.

Who acts: Prince, sun, rays · What happens: appear, speak, be, shine, enable, form · To what, where: form, water, rays, Rainbow · 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 (Prince, sun, rays), 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	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 appear	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 appear	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 appear	advmod
5	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 speak	cc
7	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 appear	conj
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 form	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 form	det
10	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 speak	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Rainbow	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Rainbow	det
13	Rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 form	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 necessary	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 necessary	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 necessary	expl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 necessary	cop
18	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	19 necessary	advmod
19	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 appear	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 shine	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sun	det
22	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shine	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 shine	aux
24	shine	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 enable	advcl
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 water	case
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shine	obl
27	so	so	ADV	_	30 enable	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 enable	mark
29	to	to	PART	_	30 enable	mark
30	enable	enable	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 necessary	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rays	det
32	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 enable	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 form	mark
34	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 enable	xcomp
35	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 form	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 appear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	could	the Prince				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other	infinitive	the Prince not said here		the form of a Rainbow		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the Prince not said here			necessary, therefore property	tree rules
4	shine	should	the sun		water		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Location
5	enable	to-infinitive		the rays			tree rules
6	form	to-infinitive	the rays not said here	rays = ray			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme
7	form			a Rainbow			nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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