The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 79
She was even more amazed than she had been before, and asked him again if he had either seen or spoken to the black girl; but the Prince knew better than to betray his word, and once more lied freely.
Who acts: Fairy, Prince · What happens: be, ask, see, speak, know, betray · To what, where: Prince, word · 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 (Fairy, Prince), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 amazed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 amazed | cop |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 more | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 amazed | advmod |
| 5 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 before | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 before | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 before | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 before | cop |
| 10 | before | before | ADV | _ | 5 amazed | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 amazed | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 asked | advmod |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 seen | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 19 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 seen | advmod |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 asked | advcl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 spoken | cc |
| 22 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 seen | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 girl | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 girl | det |
| 25 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 girl | amod |
| 26 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spoken | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 knew | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 knew | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Prince | det |
| 30 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 knew | nsubj |
| 31 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 amazed | parataxis |
| 32 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 knew | advmod |
| 33 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 35 betray | mark |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 betray | mark |
| 35 | betray | betray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 better | advcl |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 word | nmod:poss |
| 37 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 betray | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 lied | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 lied | cc |
| 40 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 42 lied | advmod |
| 41 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 42 lied | advmod |
| 42 | lied | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 knew | conj |
| 43 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 42 lied | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 amazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Fairy | amazed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | Fairy | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Fairy not said here | Prince | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | see a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Prince | either property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | participle | Prince not said here | to the black girl | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to girl=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | know | past | the Prince | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | betray | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | Prince's word | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | lie | past | the Prince not said here | freely, once property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | word | Prince | 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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