The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 72
Luckily she only found his wife at home, who was much struck by the Princess’s youth and beauty and sweet gentle manners, and still further impressed by the present of the shining pebble.
Who acts: heroine, youth · What happens: find, strike, shine · To what, where: wife, home
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, youth), 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 | Luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 4 found | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 found | advmod |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 struck | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 struck | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 struck | aux:pass |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 struck | advmod |
| 13 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 home | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 youth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Princess | det |
| 16 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 youth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Princess | case |
| 18 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 struck | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 beauty | cc |
| 20 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 youth | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 manners | cc |
| 22 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 manners | amod |
| 23 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 manners | amod |
| 24 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 18 youth | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 impressed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 impressed | cc |
| 27 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 further | advmod |
| 28 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 impressed | advmod |
| 29 | impressed | impressed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 found | conj |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 present | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 present | det |
| 32 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 impressed | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 pebble | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 pebble | det |
| 35 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 pebble | amod |
| 36 | pebble | pebble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 present | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | heroine | bird's wife | home | luckily property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent wife=Theme at home=Asset | ||
| 2 | strike | past · passive | the Princess's youth and beauty and sweet gentle manners | home | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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