The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 35
She fondly embraced her son, after which she informed him that his father had been dead for some years, that the anger of the Fairies was at length appeased, and that he might return in peace to reign over his people, who were longing for his presence.
Who acts: first, father, anger, rainbow, people, Fairies · What happens: embrace, inform, be, appease, return, reign · To what, where: son, rainbow, length, peace
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, father, anger, rainbow), 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 | 3 embraced | nsubj |
| 2 | fondly | fondly | ADV | _ | 3 embraced | advmod |
| 3 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 embraced | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 informed | punct |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 informed | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 informed | nsubj |
| 10 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 embraced | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 informed | iobj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 dead | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dead | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dead | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 dead | cop |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 informed | advcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 years | case |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 years | det |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 dead | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 length | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 length | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 anger | det |
| 24 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 length | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Fairies | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Fairies | det |
| 27 | Fairies | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 anger | nmod |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 length | cop |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 length | case |
| 30 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 informed | parataxis |
| 31 | appeased | appease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 length | acl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 return | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 return | cc |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 return | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 return | nsubj |
| 36 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 return | aux |
| 37 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 embraced | parataxis |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 peace | case |
| 39 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 return | obl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 reign | mark |
| 41 | reign | reign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 return | advcl |
| 42 | over | over | ADP | _ | 44 people | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 people | nmod:poss |
| 44 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 reign | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 longing | punct |
| 46 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 longing | nsubj |
| 47 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 longing | aux |
| 48 | longing | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 people | acl |
| 49 | for | for | ADP | _ | 51 presence | case |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 presence | nmod:poss |
| 51 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 longing | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | first | first's son | fondly property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | inform speech: other | past | first | rainbow | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | rainbow's father | year | dead property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | the anger of the Fairies | length | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | appease | participle | length not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | return | might | rainbow | peace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | reign | to-infinitive | rainbow not said here | over rainbow's people | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | long | past · progressive | rainbow's people | for rainbow's presence | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for presence=Theme | ||||
| 9 | anger | the Fairies | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: of=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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