The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 80
On the following day the Fairy set him a third task to do, even harder than the other two.
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: follow, set, do · To what, where: Prince
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), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fairy | det |
| 6 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 set | nsubj |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 set | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 task | det |
| 10 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 task | amod |
| 11 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 task | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 harder | punct |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 harder | advmod |
| 16 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 set | parataxis |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 two | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 two | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 two | amod |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 harder | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | set | past | the Fairy | Prince | day | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent he=Theme task=Destination | |||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the Fairy not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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