The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 8
I cannot get the thought out of my mind that the green monkey is no other than our beloved Prince Alphege, transformed in this strange fashion.
Who acts: I, green monkey, my · What happens: not get, be, transform, mind · To what, where: thought, mind, beloved Alphege, strange fashion
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 (I, green monkey, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thought | det |
| 6 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 mind | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mind | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mind | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 other | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 monkey | det |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 monkey | amod |
| 14 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 other | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 other | cop |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 other | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | advcl |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 Alphege | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Alphege | nmod:poss |
| 20 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Alphege | amod |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Alphege | nmod:desc |
| 22 | Alphege | Alphege | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 other | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 transformed | punct |
| 24 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 Alphege | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 fashion | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 fashion | det |
| 27 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fashion | amod |
| 28 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 transformed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | can | I | the thought | my mind | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thought=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | present | the green monkey | than our beloved Alphege Prince; other property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | transform | participle | our beloved Alphege Prince not said here | this strange fashion | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mind | my | nom mind «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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