The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 54
The Prince listened to her words meekly, and when she had finished took up the glass axe and set out for the forest.
Who acts: Prince, Fairy · What happens: listen, finish, take up, set out, word · To what, where: glass axe
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 (Prince, Fairy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 words | nmod:poss |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 listened | obl |
| 7 | meekly | meekly | ADV | _ | 3 listened | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 finished | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 finished | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 finished | aux |
| 13 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 took | advcl |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listened | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 took | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 axe | det |
| 17 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 axe | compound |
| 18 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 forest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 forest | det |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the Prince | to Fairy's words; meekly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | finish | past · perfect | Fairy | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | take up | past | the glass axe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | |||||
| 4 | set out | past | for the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | word | Fairy | nom word «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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