The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 2
This time she made sure of catching her victim, but the cat spied her out, and, springing from one of the boughs of the arbour she flew at Lagree’s face and tore out her only eye, thus delivering the Princess for ever from her persecutor.
Who acts: Fairer, cat · What happens: make, catch, spy out, spring, fly, tore out · To what, where: victim, Fairer, face, Princess
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, cat), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 made | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 catching | mark |
| 7 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sure | advcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 victim | nmod:poss |
| 9 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catching | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spied | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 spied | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cat | det |
| 13 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spied | nsubj |
| 14 | spied | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spied | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 spied | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 flew | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 flew | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 springing | punct |
| 20 | springing | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 flew | advcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 springing | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 boughs | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 boughs | det |
| 25 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 one | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 arbour | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 arbour | det |
| 28 | arbour | arbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 boughs | nmod |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 flew | nsubj |
| 30 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 face | case |
| 32 | Lagree | Lagree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 face | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 Lagree | case |
| 34 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 flew | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 tore | cc |
| 36 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 flew | conj |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 tore | compound:prt |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 tore | obj |
| 39 | only | only | ADV | _ | 40 eye | advmod |
| 40 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tore | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 delivering | punct |
| 42 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 43 delivering | advmod |
| 43 | delivering | deliver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 made | advcl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Princess | det |
| 45 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 delivering | obj |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 persecutor | case |
| 47 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 50 persecutor | advmod |
| 48 | from | from | ADP | _ | 50 persecutor | case |
| 49 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 persecutor | nmod:poss |
| 50 | persecutor | persecutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 delivering | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Fairer | time | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | catch | gerund | Fairer not said here | Fairer's victim | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victim=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spy out | past | the cat | Fairer | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | spring | gerund | Fairer not said here | from one of the boughs of the arbour | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from one=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | fly | past | Fairer | Lagree's face | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at face=Location | ||||
| 6 | tore out | past | Fairer not said here | Fairer | eye obl | tree rules | |||
| 7 | deliver | gerund | Fairer not said here | the Princess | for Fairer's persecutor; thus property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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