The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 78
He returned to the castle as quickly as he could, and told the Fairy that her commands were obeyed.
Who acts: Prince, Fairy · What happens: return, tell, obey, command · To what, where: Fairy, 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 castle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | obl |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 quickly | advmod |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 returned | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 could | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 could | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 quickly | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 returned | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fairy | det |
| 15 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | obj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 obeyed | mark |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 commands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 obeyed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 obeyed | aux:pass |
| 20 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 told | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Prince | to the castle result; quickly property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Prince not said here | the Fairy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent fairy=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | obey | past · passive | Fairy's commands | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | 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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