The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 2
‘You, my wife, the companion of my days, will follow me ere many moons have waned to the island of the blest.
Who acts: You, many moons · What happens: follow, wane · To what, where: me
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 (You, many moons), 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 | _ | 14 follow | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 follow | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wife | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 You | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 companion | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 companion | det |
| 8 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 days | nmod:poss |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 companion | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wife | punct |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 follow | aux |
| 14 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 follow | obj |
| 16 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 17 many | advmod |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 moons | amod |
| 18 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 waned | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 waned | aux |
| 20 | waned | wane | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 follow | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 island | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 island | det |
| 23 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 waned | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 blest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 blest | det |
| 26 | blest | bl | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 island | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | future | You | me | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wane | present · perfect | many moons | to the island | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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