The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 51
No sooner had the Fairy reached her own domain than she made herself visible, and turning to the Prince she told him that unless he obeyed all her commands down to the minutest detail he would be severely punished.
Who acts: Fairy, Prince, minutest detail · What happens: reach, make, turn, tell, obey, punish · To what, where: own domain, Fairy, Prince, commands · 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 (Fairy, Prince, minutest detail), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 reached | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fairy | det |
| 5 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 domain | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 domain | amod |
| 9 | domain | domain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 made | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | advcl |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 made | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 told | cc |
| 17 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 told | csubj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Prince | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 turning | obl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | nsubj |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | iobj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 obeyed | mark |
| 25 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 27 obeyed | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 obeyed | nsubj |
| 27 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 told | ccomp |
| 28 | all | all | ADV | _ | 30 commands | advmod |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 commands | nmod:poss |
| 30 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 obeyed | obj |
| 31 | down | down | ADV | _ | 30 commands | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 detail | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 detail | det |
| 34 | minutest | minute | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 detail | amod |
| 35 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 down | obl |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 punished | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 punished | aux:pass |
| 39 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 40 punished | advmod |
| 40 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 detail | acl:relcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the Fairy | Fairy's own domain | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent domain=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | Fairy | Fairy | visible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Product | |||
| 3 | turn | gerund | to the Prince result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to prince=Result | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Fairy | Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | obey a condition, not said to happen | past | Prince | Fairy's commands | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | ||||
| 6 | punish | would · passive | the minutest detail not said here | Prince | severely property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 7 | command | Fairy | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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