The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 86
It was the only chance of seeing her lover before they were separated, and she did not hesitate to break the bottle and pour their contents into the basin, when the Rainbow appeared at once.
Who acts: water, only chance, sun, Rainbow · What happens: be, see, separate, not hesitate, break, pour · To what, where: only chance, lover, bottles, bottle, contents, basin
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 (water, only chance, sun, Rainbow), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chance | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chance | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chance | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chance | amod |
| 5 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 seeing | mark |
| 7 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 chance | acl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lover | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seeing | obj |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 separated | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 separated | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 separated | aux:pass |
| 13 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 seeing | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hesitate | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hesitate | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hesitate | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hesitate | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 hesitate | advmod |
| 19 | hesitate | hesitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 chance | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 break | mark |
| 21 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hesitate | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bottle | det |
| 23 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 break | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pour | cc |
| 25 | pour | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hesitate | conj |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 contents | nmod:poss |
| 27 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 25 pour | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 basin | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 basin | det |
| 30 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pour | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 appeared | punct |
| 32 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 35 appeared | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Rainbow | det |
| 34 | Rainbow | Rainbow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 appeared | nsubj |
| 35 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 basin | acl:relcl |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 once | case |
| 37 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 35 appeared | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | water | the only chance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the only chance not said here | sun's lover | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lover=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | separate | past · passive | bottles = bottle | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | not hesitate | past · do-support | sun | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | break | to-infinitive | sun not said here | the bottle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bottle=Patient | ||||
| 6 | pour | present | sun not said here | bottles's contents | the basin | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent contents=Theme into basin=Destination | |||
| 7 | appear | past | the Rainbow | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
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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