The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 64
Fairer-than-a-Fairy lost no moment in which she could meet her lover, and they enjoyed many long and interesting interviews.
Who acts: Fairer, sun, rays · What happens: lose, meet, enjoy · To what, where: lover, many long interviews
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, 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 | Fairer | Fairer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fairy | punct |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 Fairy | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 than | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Fairy | det |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 a | punct |
| 7 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fairer | appos |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 moment | det |
| 10 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 meet | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 meet | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 meet | aux |
| 15 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 moment | acl:relcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lover | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 meet | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 enjoyed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 enjoyed | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 21 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lost | conj |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 interviews | amod |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 interviews | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 interesting | cc |
| 25 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 long | conj |
| 26 | interviews | interview | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 enjoyed | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | Fairer | moment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | meet | could | sun | sun's lover | in no moment | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | enjoy | past | rays = ray | many long interviews | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer interview=Stimulus |
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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