The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 69
Our heroine obeyed with great sweetness, and without having been able to take leave of her lover she set off to go to Locrinos as to certain death.
Who acts: heroine · What happens: obey, have, be, take, set off, go · To what, where: leave, Locrinos
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 (heroine), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 heroine | nmod:poss |
| 2 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 sweetness | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sweetness | amod |
| 6 | sweetness | sweetness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obeyed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 able | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 able | cc |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 able | mark |
| 10 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 able | nsubj |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 able | cop |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 obeyed | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 take | mark |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | xcomp |
| 15 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 lover | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lover | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leave | nmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | nsubj |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 leave | acl:relcl |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 set | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Locrinos | case |
| 25 | Locrinos | Locrinos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 29 death | case |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 as | fixed |
| 28 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 death | amod |
| 29 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | participle | Our heroine | with great sweetness | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | participle | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | leave of heroine's lover | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||||
| 5 | set off | past | heroine | leave of heroine's lover not said here | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition leave=Patient | ||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | heroine not said here | Locrinos | as certain death | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to locrinos=Initial_Location |
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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