The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 82
The poor young couple were in despair, and only parted with the last ray of sunshine, and in hopes of meeting next morning.
Who acts: poor young couple, meeting · What happens: be, part, ray, hope · To what, where: despair, sunshine
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 (poor young couple, meeting), 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 | 4 couple | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 couple | amod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 couple | amod |
| 4 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 despair | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 despair | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 despair | case |
| 7 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 parted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 parted | cc |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 parted | advmod |
| 11 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 despair | acl:relcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 ray | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ray | det |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ray | amod |
| 15 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 parted | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sunshine | case |
| 17 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ray | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hopes | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hopes | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hopes | case |
| 21 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 despair | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 meeting | case |
| 23 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hopes | nmod |
| 24 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 morning | amod |
| 25 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 meeting | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 despair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the poor young couple | despair and hopes of meeting next morning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | part | participle | despair and hopes of meeting next morning not said here | with the last ray of sunshine | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with ray=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | ray | sunshine | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | hope | meeting next morning | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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