The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 68
Now this Locrinos was a cruel monster who devoured everyone he came across, and especially enjoyed a chance of catching and eating any young girls.
Who acts: Locrinos, cruel monster, catching · What happens: be, devour, come, enjoy, eat, chance · To what, where: cruel monster, everyone, chance, young girls
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 (Locrinos, cruel monster, catching), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 Locrinos | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Locrinos | det |
| 3 | Locrinos | Locrinos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 monster | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 monster | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 monster | det |
| 6 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 monster | amod |
| 7 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 devoured | nsubj |
| 9 | devoured | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 monster | acl:relcl |
| 10 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 devoured | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 13 | across | across | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 enjoyed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 enjoyed | cc |
| 16 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 17 enjoyed | advmod |
| 17 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 monster | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 chance | det |
| 19 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 enjoyed | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 catching | case |
| 21 | catching | catching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chance | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 eating | cc |
| 23 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 catching | conj |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 girls | det |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 girls | amod |
| 26 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 eating | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 monster | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this Locrinos | a cruel monster | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | devour | past | a cruel monster | everyone | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Locrinos | across property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | enjoy | past | this Locrinos not said here | a chance of catching | especially property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | eat | gerund | this Locrinos not said here | any young girls | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | ||||
| 6 | chance | catching | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=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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