The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 60
Mindful of the Fairy’s warning he did not dare to address her, but she on her part greeted him in the most friendly manner, and asked him at once if he were under the power of the wicked Fairy.
Who acts: Prince, Fairy · What happens: not dare, not address, greet, ask, be, warn · To what, where: warning, Fairy, Prince, friendly manner, power
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 | Mindful | mindful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 greeted | advmod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 warning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fairy | det |
| 4 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 warning | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Fairy | case |
| 6 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mindful | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dare | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dare | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 dare | advmod |
| 10 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 warning | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 address | mark |
| 12 | address | address | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 dare | xcomp |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 address | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 greeted | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 greeted | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 greeted | nsubj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 part | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 part | nmod:poss |
| 19 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 she | nmod |
| 20 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 greeted | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 manner | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 manner | det |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 friendly | advmod |
| 25 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 manner | amod |
| 26 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 greeted | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 asked | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 asked | cc |
| 29 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 greeted | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 asked | iobj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 once | case |
| 32 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 29 asked | obl |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 power | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 power | nsubj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 power | cop |
| 36 | under | under | ADP | _ | 38 power | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 power | det |
| 38 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 asked | advcl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Fairy | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Fairy | det |
| 41 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Fairy | amod |
| 42 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 power | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 greeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | past · do-support | Prince | the Fairy's warning not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent warning=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not address | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Fairy | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | past | Fairy | Prince | the friendly manner | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Fairy not said here | Prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | Prince | the power | of the wicked Fairy | tree rules | |||
| 6 | warn | the Fairy | nom warning «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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