The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 11
These houses belonged to three sisters, all endowed with fairy gifts, and all so alike in mind and person that they wished their houses and garments to be equally alike.
Who acts: houses, three sisters, mind · What happens: belong, endow, wish, be · To what, where: all, houses
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (houses, three sisters, mind), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 houses | det |
| 2 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 belonged | nsubj |
| 3 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 sisters | case |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 sisters | nummod |
| 6 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 belonged | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 endowed | punct |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 endowed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | endowed | endow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sisters | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 gifts | case |
| 11 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gifts | compound |
| 12 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 endowed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 alike | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 alike | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 alike | nsubj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 alike | advmod |
| 17 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 belonged | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 mind | case |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 alike | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 person | cc |
| 21 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mind | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 wished | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wished | nsubj |
| 24 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 belonged | advcl |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 houses | nmod:poss |
| 26 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 wished | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 garments | cc |
| 28 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 houses | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 alike | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 alike | cop |
| 31 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 32 alike | advmod |
| 32 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wished | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 belonged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | past | this houses | to three sisters | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | endow | participle · passive | three sisters not said here | all | with fairy gifts | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with gift=Theme | |||
| 3 | wish | past | mind | mind's houses and garments | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot house=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | mind not said here | alike, equally property | tree rules |
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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