The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 62
Then the black girl told him that she too was in the power of the Fairy, who had doomed her to wander about in her present guise until some youth should take pity on her and bear her in safety to the other side of the river which they saw in the distance, and on the other side of which the Fairy’s domain and power ended.
Who acts: black girl, girl, power, youth, river · What happens: tell, be, doom, wander, take, bear · To what, where: Prince, power, girl, present guise, pity, safety · 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 (black girl, girl, power, youth), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 power | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 power | nsubj |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 power | advmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 power | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 power | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 power | det |
| 13 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Fairy | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Fairy | det |
| 16 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 power | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 doomed | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 doomed | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 doomed | aux |
| 20 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 power | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 doomed | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 wander | mark |
| 23 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 doomed | advcl |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 wander | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 guise | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 guise | nmod:poss |
| 27 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 guise | amod |
| 28 | guise | guise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wander | obl |
| 29 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 33 take | mark |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 youth | det |
| 31 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 take | nsubj |
| 32 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 take | aux |
| 33 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wander | advcl |
| 34 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 take | obj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 her | case |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 take | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 bear | cc |
| 38 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 take | conj |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 bear | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 safety | case |
| 41 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bear | obl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 side | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 side | det |
| 44 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 side | amod |
| 45 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bear | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 river | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 river | det |
| 48 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 side | nmod |
| 49 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 saw | obj |
| 50 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 saw | nsubj |
| 51 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 river | acl:relcl |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 distance | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 distance | det |
| 54 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 saw | obl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 69 ended | punct |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 69 ended | cc |
| 57 | on | on | ADP | _ | 60 side | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 side | det |
| 59 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 side | amod |
| 60 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 ended | obl |
| 61 | of | of | ADP | _ | 62 which | case |
| 62 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 66 domain | obl |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 Fairy | det |
| 64 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 domain | nmod:poss |
| 65 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 64 Fairy | case |
| 66 | domain | domain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 side | nmod |
| 67 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 68 power | cc |
| 68 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 domain | conj |
| 69 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | conj |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the black girl | Prince | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | past | girl | the power | of the Fairy | tree rules | |||
| 3 | doom | past · perfect | the power | girl | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wander | to-infinitive | the power not said here | girl's present guise | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in guise=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | take | should | some youth | pity | on girl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on she=Destination | |||
| 6 | bear | infinitive | some youth not said here | girl | safety | to the other side of the river | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||
| 7 | see | past | river | the river | in the distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | end | past | the black girl not said here | the other side the Fairy's domain and power | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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