The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 7
As the green and white lady took leave of the Princess she gave her a nut, desiring her only to open it in the most urgent need.
Who acts: leave · What happens: take, give, desire, open · To what, where: nut, Princess, urgent need
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 (leave), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 6 lady | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lady | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 white | cc |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 green | conj |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Princess | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | nmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 nut | det |
| 16 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 desiring | punct |
| 18 | desiring | desire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 gave | advcl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 desiring | obj |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 open | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 open | mark |
| 22 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 desiring | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 open | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 need | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 need | det |
| 26 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 27 urgent | advmod |
| 27 | urgent | urgent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 need | amod |
| 28 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 open | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | as the green lady | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as lady=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | give | past | leave of the Princess | a nut | Princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient nut=Theme | |||
| 3 | desire | gerund | leave of the Princess not said here | Princess | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | open | to-infinitive | leave of the Princess not said here | nut | the urgent need | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme in need=Location |
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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