The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 25
Fairy-than-a-Fairy, who now saw him for the first time in his real shape, hardly dared to gaze at him, fearing lest his appearance might not be in keeping with the voice and language which had won her heart.
Who acts: Fairy, appearance, language · What happens: see, dare, gaze, fear, not be, win · To what, where: rainbow, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
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, appearance, language), 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 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Fairy | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fairy | 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 | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 saw | advmod |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Fairy | acl:relcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 shape | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 shape | nmod:poss |
| 19 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 shape | amod |
| 20 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 time | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dared | punct |
| 22 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 23 dared | advmod |
| 23 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 saw | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 gaze | mark |
| 25 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 dared | xcomp |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gaze | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fearing | punct |
| 29 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 dared | advcl |
| 30 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 37 keeping | mark |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 32 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 keeping | nsubj |
| 33 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 keeping | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 keeping | advmod |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 keeping | cop |
| 36 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 37 keeping | mark |
| 37 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 fearing | ccomp |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 voice | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 voice | det |
| 40 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 keeping | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 language | cc |
| 42 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 voice | conj |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 won | nsubj |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 won | aux |
| 45 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 language | acl:relcl |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 heart | nmod:poss |
| 47 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 won | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fairy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | a Fairy | rainbow | now; time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | dare | participle | a Fairy not said here | hardly property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | gaze | to-infinitive | a Fairy not said here | at rainbow | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fear | gerund | a Fairy not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | not is | might | rainbow's appearance | with the voice and language; keep property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | win | past · perfect | language | Fairy's heart | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality |
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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