The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 79
By this means they were able to meet without losing sight of the fire or of the two bottles in which the old Fairy kept her eye and her tooth at night, and for some time the lovers enjoyed every hour of sunshine together.
Who acts: this, rays, old Fairy, lovers · What happens: mean, be, meet, lose, keep, enjoy · To what, where: sight, eye, two bottles, fire · 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 (this, rays, old Fairy, lovers), 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 means | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 able | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 able | cop |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 means | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 meet | mark |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 losing | mark |
| 10 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 meet | advcl |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 losing | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 fire | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fire | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sight | nmod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 bottles | cc |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bottles | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bottles | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 bottles | nummod |
| 19 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fire | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 kept | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Fairy | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Fairy | amod |
| 24 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 kept | nsubj |
| 25 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bottles | parataxis |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 eye | nmod:poss |
| 27 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kept | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 tooth | cc |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 tooth | nmod:poss |
| 30 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kept | conj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 night | case |
| 32 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kept | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 enjoyed | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 enjoyed | cc |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 time | case |
| 36 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 time | det |
| 37 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 enjoyed | obl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 lovers | det |
| 39 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 40 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | conj |
| 41 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 hour | det |
| 42 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 enjoyed | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 sunshine | case |
| 44 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hour | nmod |
| 45 | together | together | ADV | _ | 40 enjoyed | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | this | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | rays = ray | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | rays = ray not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lose | gerund | rays = ray not said here | sight of the fire or the two bottles | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | keep | past | the old Fairy | heroine's eye | the two bottles | night | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme in which=Location | ||
| 6 | enjoy | past | the lovers | hour; time | together property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 7 | sight | the fire or the two bottles | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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