The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 15
Fairer-than-a-Fairy thanked her warmly, and resumed her way cheered by pleasant thoughts.
Who acts: Fairer · What happens: thank, resume, cheer · To what, where: Fairy, way
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 (Fairer), 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 | Fairer | Fairer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 thanked | punct |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 Fairy | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 than | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Fairy | det |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 a | punct |
| 7 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thanked | obl |
| 8 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thanked | obj |
| 10 | warmly | warmly | ADV | _ | 8 thanked | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 resumed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 resumed | cc |
| 13 | resumed | resume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thanked | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 resumed | obj |
| 16 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 way | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 thoughts | case |
| 18 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thoughts | amod |
| 19 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cheered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Fairer | Fairy | than a Fairy; warmly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | resume | past | Fairer not said here | Fairy's way | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | cheer | participle | Fairy's way not said here | by pleasant thoughts | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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