The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 38
They declared the secret of Fairy-than-a-Fairy’s royal birth, and the Queen taking the two lovers in her carriage set off with them for the capital of the kingdom.
Who acts: sisters, Queen, carriage · What happens: declare, take, set off · To what, where: secret, two lovers
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 (sisters, Queen, carriage), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 declared | nsubj |
| 2 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 secret | det |
| 4 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 declared | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Fairy | case |
| 6 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 secret | nmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 birth | punct |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 birth | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 than | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Fairy | det |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 a | punct |
| 12 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 birth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Fairy | case |
| 14 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 birth | amod |
| 15 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Fairy | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 taking | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 taking | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Queen | det |
| 19 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 taking | nsubj |
| 20 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 declared | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lovers | det |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 lovers | nummod |
| 23 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 taking | obj |
| 24 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 27 set | mark |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 26 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 set | nsubj |
| 27 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 taking | advcl |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 set | compound:prt |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 set | obl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 capital | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 capital | det |
| 33 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 set | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 kingdom | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 kingdom | det |
| 36 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 capital | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | sisters = sister | the secret of Fairy | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | the Queen | the two lovers | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set off | past | Fairy's carriage | with sisters = sister; for the capital of the kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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