The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 31
She added some gentle reproaches to her tale, but before she had got far he was wide awake, and transported with joy threw himself at the Princess’s feet.
Who acts: Fairy, Prince · What happens: add, get, be, transport, throw, tell · To what, where: gentle reproaches, Prince, feet · 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, Prince), 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 added | nsubj |
| 2 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 reproaches | det |
| 4 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reproaches | amod |
| 5 | reproaches | reproach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 added | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tale | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tale | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 added | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 got | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | aux |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 added | parataxis |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 awake | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 awake | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 awake | cop |
| 18 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 19 awake | advmod |
| 19 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 got | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 transported | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 transported | cc |
| 22 | transported | transport | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 threw | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 joy | case |
| 24 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 threw | obl |
| 25 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 added | parataxis |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 threw | obj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 feet | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Princess | det |
| 29 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 feet | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 Princess | case |
| 31 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 threw | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | Fairy | some gentle reproaches | to Fairy's tale | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent reproach=Patient to tale=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | Fairy | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Prince | awake, far, wide property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | transport | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | throw | past | Prince | the Princess's feet | with joy | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 6 | tell | Fairy | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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