The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 97
Only his bride, who was serving as cook to her sisters, recognised her lover at once.
Who acts: bride · What happens: serve, recognise · To what, where: lover
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 (bride), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 bride | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bride | nmod:poss |
| 3 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 recognised | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 serving | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 serving | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 serving | aux |
| 7 | serving | serve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 bride | acl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 cook | case |
| 9 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 serving | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 sisters | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 serving | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bride | punct |
| 14 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lover | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 recognised | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 recognised | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past · progressive | eye's bride | as cook; to bride's sisters | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as cook=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | recognise | past | eye's bride | bride's lover | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lover=Stimulus |
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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