The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 89
They were not allowed much time for their adieus; the Rainbow vanished, and the Princess, resolved to run all risks, started off at once, taking nothing with her but her dog, her cat, a sprig of myrtle, and the stone which the wife of Locrinos gave her.
Who acts: Rainbow, Princess, stone · What happens: not allow, vanish, resolve, run, start off, take · To what, where: bottles, risks, nothing, Princess
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 (Rainbow, Princess, stone), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 allowed | advmod |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 allowed | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 adieus | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 adieus | nmod:poss |
| 9 | adieus | adieu | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 time | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 vanished | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Rainbow | det |
| 12 | Rainbow | Rainbow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 vanished | nsubj |
| 13 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 resolved | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 resolved | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Princess | det |
| 17 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 resolved | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Princess | punct |
| 19 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 vanished | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 run | mark |
| 21 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 resolved | xcomp |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 risks | det |
| 23 | risks | risk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 run | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 started | punct |
| 25 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 vanished | conj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 started | compound:prt |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 once | case |
| 28 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 started | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 taking | punct |
| 30 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 started | advcl |
| 31 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 30 taking | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 her | case |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 taking | obl |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 dog | cc |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 dog | nmod:poss |
| 36 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 taking | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 cat | punct |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 cat | nmod:poss |
| 39 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 taking | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 sprig | punct |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 sprig | det |
| 42 | sprig | sprig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 cat | appos |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 myrtle | case |
| 44 | myrtle | myrtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sprig | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 gave | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 gave | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 stone | det |
| 48 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 gave | nsubj |
| 49 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 54 gave | nsubj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 wife | det |
| 51 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 gave | nsubj |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 Locrinos | case |
| 53 | Locrinos | Locrinos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 wife | nmod |
| 54 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 vanished | conj |
| 55 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 gave | iobj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | past · passive | bottles = bottle | time | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | vanish | past | the Rainbow | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | resolve | past | the Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | run | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | all risks | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme risk=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | start off | past | the Rainbow not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | take | gerund | the Rainbow not said here | nothing | with Princess | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | |||
| 7 | give | past | the stone | Princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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