The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 77

The dread of fresh dangers to his beloved Princess made him devise some more convenient way of meeting than by the garden fountain, and Fairer-than-a-Fairy carried out his plan daily with entire success.

Who acts: dread, Fairer, convenient way · What happens: make, devise, meet, carry out, dread, plan · To what, where: Fairer, convenient way, plan, fresh dangers

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 (dread, Fairer, convenient way), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dread	det
2	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 dangers	case
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dangers	amod
5	dangers	danger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dread	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 Princess	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 Princess	nmod:poss
8	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Princess	amod
9	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dangers	nmod
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	obj
12	devise	devise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 made	xcomp
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 way	det
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 convenient	advmod
15	convenient	convenient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 devise	obj
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 meeting	mark
18	meeting	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 way	acl
19	than	than	ADP	_	23 fountain	case
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 fountain	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fountain	det
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fountain	compound
23	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 meeting	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 carried	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 carried	cc
26	Fairer	Fairer	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 carried	nsubj
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 Fairy	punct
28	than	than	ADP	_	32 Fairy	case
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 than	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 Fairy	det
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 a	punct
32	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Fairer	appos
33	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	parataxis
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 carried	compound:prt
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 plan	nmod:poss
36	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 carried	obj
37	daily	daily	ADV	_	33 carried	advmod
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 success	case
39	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 success	amod
40	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 carried	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the dread of fresh dangers to dread's beloved Princess	Fairer		tree rules
2	devise	infinitive	Fairer not said here	some convenient way		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
3	meet	gerund	some convenient way not said here		than the garden fountain	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	carry out	past	Fairer	Fairer's plan	with entire success; daily property	vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Eventuality
5	dread			fresh dangers to dread's beloved Princess		nom dread «feeling transitive»: of=patient
6	plan		Fairer			nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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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