The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 74
First the treasures were attached to the rope and then the three lovely girls.
What happens: attach · To what, where: treasures
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: 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 attached | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 treasures | det |
| 3 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 attached | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 attached | aux:pass |
| 5 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 rope | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rope | det |
| 8 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attached | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 girls | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 girls | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girls | det |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 girls | nummod |
| 13 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 girls | amod |
| 14 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rope | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 attached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attach | past · passive | the treasures | to the rope and the three lovely girls; first property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to rope=Co-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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