The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 79
For a long time he wandered sadly all through the beautiful underworld, and one day he met a magician who asked him the cause of his tears.
Who acts: last, magician · What happens: wander, meet, ask, cause · To what, where: beautiful underworld, magician, cause, last, tears
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, magician), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wandered | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wandered | nsubj |
| 6 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 6 wandered | advmod |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 underworld | advmod |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 underworld | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 underworld | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 underworld | amod |
| 12 | underworld | underworld | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wandered | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 met | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 met | cc |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 day | nummod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 met | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 met | nsubj |
| 18 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wandered | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 magician | det |
| 20 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 met | obj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 asked | nsubj |
| 22 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 magician | acl:relcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 asked | iobj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cause | det |
| 25 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 asked | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 tears | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 tears | nmod:poss |
| 28 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 cause | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | last | the beautiful underworld | time | sadly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through underworld=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | meet | past | last | a magician | day | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | a magician | the cause of last's tears | last | tree rules | |||
| 4 | cause | last's tears | nom cause «event 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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