The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 34
In the first and most splendid of these carriages sat Prince Rainbow’s mother.
Who acts: first · What happens: sit · To what, where: mother
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 (first), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 first | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 first | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 splendid | cc |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 splendid | advmod |
| 6 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 first | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 carriages | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 carriages | det |
| 9 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 splendid | obl |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Rainbow | compound |
| 12 | Rainbow | Rainbow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Rainbow | case |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the first | Prince Rainbow's mother | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mother=Theme |
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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