The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 71
She took the bird’s advice, and in due time arrived at the house of Locrinos.
Who acts: heroine · What happens: take, arrive · To what, where: advice, house
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 advice | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 bird | case |
| 6 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 arrived | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arrived | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arrived | obl |
| 12 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 took | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arrived | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Locrinos | case |
| 17 | Locrinos | Locrinos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 house | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | heroine | the bird's advice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrive | participle | heroine not said here | the house of Locrinos | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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