The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 73

She readily let Fairer-than-a-Fairy have the fire, and in return for the stone she gave her another, which, she said, might prove useful some day.

Who acts: heroine · What happens: let, have, give, say, prove · To what, where: Fairer, fire, another, return · Speech: someone speaks here

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	3 let	nsubj
2	readily	readily	ADV	_	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Fairer	Fairer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 let	obj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
6	than	than	ADP	_	10 Fairy	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 than	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Fairy	det
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 a	punct
10	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obl
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Fairer	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gave	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 return	case
17	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 stone	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stone	det
20	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 return	nmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	nsubj
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	conj
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 another	nmod:poss
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 gave	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 said	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 which	punct
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 gave	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 prove	punct
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 prove	aux
32	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 said	ccomp
33	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 prove	xcomp
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 day	det
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 prove	obl:unmarked
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	heroine	Fairer			readily property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairer=Theme
2	have	present		the fire			than a Fairy	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient
3	give	past	heroine	another	return for the stone			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	heroine					tree rules
5	prove	might				day	useful property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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