The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 37

He was just about to present her to his mother and the Court, feeling sure that her charms would win all hearts, when the three green and white sisters appeared.

Who acts: Court, charms, three green sisters · What happens: be, feel, win, appear · To what, where: hearts

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 (Court, charms, three green sisters), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 present	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 present	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 about	advmod
4	about	about	ADV	_	6 present	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 present	mark
6	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 present	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 mother	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 present	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Court	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Court	det
13	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mother	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 feeling	punct
15	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 present	conj
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 feeling	xcomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 win	mark
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 charms	nmod:poss
19	charms	charm	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 win	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 win	aux
21	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sure	ccomp
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 hearts	det
23	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 win	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 appeared	punct
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 appeared	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sisters	det
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 sisters	nummod
28	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sisters	amod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 white	cc
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 green	conj
31	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 appeared	nsubj
32	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 win	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 present	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Court		to Court's mother and the Court; about, present property	tree rules
2	feel	gerund	Court not said here		sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	win	would	Fairy's charms	all hearts		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality
4	appear	past	the three green sisters			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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