The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 73
Without fear of any further danger, he packed up all the treasures of the castle into great chests, and gave his brothers a signal to pull them up out of the abyss.
Who acts: last · What happens: pack up, give, pull up, fear, treasure · To what, where: treasures, great chests, signal, brothers, abyss, further danger
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 (last), 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 2 fear | case |
| 2 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 packed | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 danger | case |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 danger | det |
| 5 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 danger | amod |
| 6 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fear | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fear | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 packed | nsubj |
| 9 | packed | pack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 packed | compound:prt |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 treasures | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 treasures | det |
| 13 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 packed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 castle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 treasures | nmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 chests | case |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 chests | amod |
| 19 | chests | chest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 packed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gave | cc |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 packed | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 gave | iobj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 signal | det |
| 26 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 pull | mark |
| 28 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 gave | advcl |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pull | obj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 pull | compound:prt |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 abyss | case |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 abyss | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 abyss | det |
| 34 | abyss | abyss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pull | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 packed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack up | past | last | all treasures of the castle | great chests | without fear of any further danger | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme into chest=Destination | ||
| 2 | give | past | last not said here | a signal | last's brothers | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient signal=Theme | |||
| 3 | pull up | to-infinitive | last not said here | BROTHERS = brother | the abyss | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme out abyss=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | fear | any further danger | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | treasure | the castle | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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