The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 78

‘So that’s what would have happened to my bones had I trusted myself to them,’ said the youth sadly; and he began to cry bitterly, not because of the treasures, but because of the lovely girl with her swanlike neck and golden hair.

Who acts: I, last · What happens: happen, trust, say, begin, cry · To what, where: myself, ropes, youth · 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 (I, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 ’s	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	4 ’s	advmod
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 ’s	nsubj
4	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	advcl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 happened	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 happened	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 happened	aux
8	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 ’s	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 bones	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bones	nmod:poss
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 happened	obl
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 trusted	aux
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 trusted	nsubj
14	trusted	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
15	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 trusted	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 trusted	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 trusted	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 trusted	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 youth	det
22	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obj
23	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	22 youth	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 began	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 began	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 began	nsubj
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 cry	mark
29	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 began	xcomp
30	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	29 cry	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 treasures	punct
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 treasures	advmod
33	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	36 treasures	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	33 because	fixed
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 treasures	det
36	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cry	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 girl	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 girl	cc
39	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	43 girl	case
40	of	of	ADP	_	39 because	fixed
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 girl	det
42	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 girl	amod
43	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 began	parataxis
44	with	with	ADP	_	47 neck	case
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 neck	nmod:poss
46	swanlike	swanlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 neck	amod
47	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 girl	nmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 hair	cc
49	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 hair	amod
50	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 neck	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect				to my bones	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	trust	past	I	myself	ropes = rope		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent myself=Theme to they=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past		the youth			tree rules
4	begin	past	last				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	last not said here			because the treasures; bitterly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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