The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 16
But when, after hard journeying, she reached the village where her brother dwelt, and saw that he had a wife and was happy, and when she, too, was sought by a young brave, then she also forgot the boy alone in the forest, and thought only of her husband.
Who acts: girl, brother · What happens: journey, reach, dwell, see, have, be · To what, where: village, wife, girl, boy, forest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, brother), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 reached | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 journeying | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 journeying | punct |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 journeying | mark |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 journeying | compound |
| 6 | journeying | journey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 reached | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 journeying | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 reached | nsubj |
| 9 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 village | det |
| 11 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | obj |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 dwelt | advmod |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dwelt | nsubj |
| 15 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 village | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | ccomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wife | det |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 happy | cc |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 happy | cop |
| 26 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 had | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sought | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sought | cc |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 sought | advmod |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 sought | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 she | punct |
| 32 | too | too | ADV | _ | 35 sought | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 too | punct |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 sought | aux:pass |
| 35 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 saw | conj |
| 36 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 39 brave | mark |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 brave | det |
| 38 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 brave | amod |
| 39 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 sought | advcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 forgot | punct |
| 41 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 forgot | advmod |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 forgot | nsubj |
| 43 | also | also | ADV | _ | 44 forgot | advmod |
| 44 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 boy | det |
| 46 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 forgot | obj |
| 47 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 44 forgot | advmod |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 forest | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 forest | det |
| 50 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 forgot | obl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 thought | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 thought | cc |
| 53 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | advcl |
| 54 | only | only | ADV | _ | 57 husband | advmod |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 husband | case |
| 56 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 husband | nmod:poss |
| 57 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 thought | ccomp |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | gerund | girl not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | girl | the village | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent village=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dwell | past | girl's brother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | have | past | brother | a wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | past | brother not said here | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | seek | past · passive | girl | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 8 | forget | past | girl | the boy | the forest | then | alone property | tree rules | |
| 9 | think speech: other | past | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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