The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 33
At last, after twelve years, the Queen gave birth to a son; but she did not live long to enjoy her happiness, for on the following day she died.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: give, not live, enjoy, follow, die · To what, where: birth, son, last, happiness, following day
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 (Queen), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gave | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 5 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gave | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 years | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 son | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 live | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 live | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 live | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 live | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 live | advmod |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gave | conj |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 live | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 enjoy | mark |
| 23 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 live | advcl |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 25 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 enjoy | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 day | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 day | case |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 day | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 day | det |
| 30 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 day | amod |
| 31 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 enjoy | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 died | nsubj |
| 33 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 day | acl:relcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Queen | birth | a son | last | year | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent birth=Theme at last=Asset to son=Recipient | |
| 2 | not live | past · do-support | Queen | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enjoy | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | Queen's happiness | day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer happiness=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | die | past | Queen | the following day not said here | tree rules |
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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