The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 12
Their occupation consisted in helping those in misfortune, and they were as gentle and benevolent as Lagree had been cruel and spiteful.
Who acts: mind, occupation · What happens: consist, help, be, occupy · To what, where: occupation, those, misfortune
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 (mind, occupation), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 occupation | nmod:poss |
| 2 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cruel | nsubj |
| 3 | consisted | consist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 occupation | acl |
| 4 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 5 helping | mark |
| 5 | helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 consisted | advcl |
| 6 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 helping | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 misfortune | case |
| 8 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 those | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gentle | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gentle | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gentle | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gentle | cop |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 gentle | case |
| 14 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 occupation | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 benevolent | cc |
| 16 | benevolent | benevolent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gentle | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 Lagree | case |
| 18 | Lagree | Lagree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 benevolent | obl |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 cruel | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 cruel | cop |
| 21 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 spiteful | cc |
| 23 | spiteful | spiteful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cruel | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 cruel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | participle | mind's occupation not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | help | gerund | those | misfortune | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | is | past | mind | gentle property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | mind not said here | as Lagree | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | past · perfect | mind's occupation | cruel property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | mind's occupation not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | occupy | mind | nom occupation «act 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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