The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 6
She greeted the fainting Princess most kindly, gave her an excellent supper, and after a long night’s rest in a delightful bed told her that after many troubles she should finally attain her desire.
Who acts: Lagree · What happens: greet, give, tell, attain, desire · To what, where: fainting Princess, excellent supper, Lagree, desire · 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 (Lagree), 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 greeted | nsubj |
| 2 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 4 | fainting | fainting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Princess | compound |
| 5 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 greeted | obj |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 kindly | advmod |
| 7 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 2 greeted | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 greeted | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 supper | det |
| 12 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 supper | amod |
| 13 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 told | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 told | cc |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 rest | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 night | det |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 night | amod |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rest | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 night | case |
| 21 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 told | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 bed | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bed | det |
| 24 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bed | amod |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rest | nmod |
| 26 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 greeted | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 told | iobj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 attain | mark |
| 29 | after | after | ADP | _ | 31 troubles | case |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 troubles | amod |
| 31 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 attain | obl |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 attain | nsubj |
| 33 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 attain | aux |
| 34 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 35 attain | advmod |
| 35 | attain | attain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 told | ccomp |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 desire | nmod:poss |
| 37 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 attain | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 greeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | past | Lagree | the fainting Princess | kindly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | Lagree not said here | a excellent supper | Lagree | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient supper=Theme | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Lagree not said here | Lagree | after a long night's rest in a delightful bed | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | attain | should | Lagree | Lagree's desire | after many troubles | finally property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme | ||
| 5 | desire | Lagree | nom desire «feeling transitive»: 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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