The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 14
She accompanied her advice by the gift of a crystal smelling-bottle, with strict orders only to open it in case of urgent need.
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: accompany, open, gift · To what, where: advice, case, crystal smelling bottle
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 (Fairy), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 accompanied | nsubj |
| 2 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 advice | nmod:poss |
| 4 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 accompanied | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 gift | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gift | det |
| 7 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 accompanied | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bottle | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bottle | det |
| 10 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bottle | amod |
| 11 | smelling | smelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bottle | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 smelling | punct |
| 13 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gift | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 orders | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 orders | case |
| 16 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 orders | amod |
| 17 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 accompanied | obl |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 open | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 open | mark |
| 20 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 accompanied | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 open | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 case | case |
| 23 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 open | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 need | case |
| 25 | urgent | urgent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 need | amod |
| 26 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 case | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 accompanied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | past | Fairy | Fairy's advice | by the gift of a crystal smelling bottle; with strict orders | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent advice=Theme by gift=Destination | |||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | Fairy not said here | advice | case of urgent need | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme in case=Location | |||
| 3 | gift | a crystal smelling bottle | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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