The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 76
She found, however, that he had already been told all about them by a Fairy who protected him, and to whom he was related.
Who acts: heroine, Fairy, Fairer · What happens: find, tell, protect, be · To what, where: Fairer · 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, Fairy, Fairer), 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 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 2 found | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 told | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 told | aux |
| 9 | already | already | ADV | _ | 11 told | advmod |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 told | aux:pass |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 found | conj |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 them | advmod |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Fairy | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Fairy | det |
| 17 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obl |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 protected | nsubj |
| 19 | protected | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Fairy | acl:relcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 protected | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 whom | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 whom | cc |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 whom | case |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 found | parataxis |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 related | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 related | cop |
| 27 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 whom | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | heroine | however property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | a Fairy | Fairer | about adventures = adventure | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient about they=Topic | |||
| 3 | protect | past | a Fairy | Fairer | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Fairer | related property | tree rules |
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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