The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 32
There was once upon a time a King and Queen who had everything they could possibly wish for in this world except a child.
Who acts: King · What happens: be, have, wish · To what, where: everything
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 (King), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Queen | cc |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | conj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | acl:relcl |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 had | obj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wish | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 wish | aux |
| 16 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 17 wish | advmod |
| 17 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 everything | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wish | obl |
| 22 | except | except | ADP | _ | 24 child | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 child | det |
| 24 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 world | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | time | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | a King and Queen | everything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wish | could | King | for this world except a child; possibly property | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for world=Theme |
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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