The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 75
When she heard what the Fairy demanded this time, she answered smilingly, ‘Never fear,’ and handed him another draught, which very soon caused the Prince to sink into a deep sleep.
Who acts: girl, Fairy, draught · What happens: hear, demand, answer, not fear, hand, cause · To what, where: draught, Prince, deep sleep · 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 (girl, Fairy, draught), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 answered | advcl |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 demanded | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fairy | det |
| 6 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 demanded | nsubj |
| 7 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 demanded | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | smilingly | smilingly | ADV | _ | 12 answered | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fear | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 fear | punct |
| 16 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 fear | advmod |
| 17 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 answered | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fear | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 fear | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 handed | cc |
| 21 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 answered | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 handed | obj |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 draught | det |
| 24 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 handed | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 caused | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 caused | obj |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 soon | advmod |
| 28 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 caused | advmod |
| 29 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 draught | acl:relcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Prince | det |
| 31 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 caused | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 sink | mark |
| 33 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 caused | xcomp |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 sleep | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 sleep | det |
| 36 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 sleep | amod |
| 37 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sink | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | girl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | past | the Fairy | time | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Fairy | smilingly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not fear | infinitive | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | hand | past | Fairy not said here | another draught | Prince | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination draught=Theme | |||
| 6 | cause | past | another draught | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | sink | to-infinitive | another draught not said here | a deep sleep | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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