The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 81
She told him he must build a castle on the other side of the lake, made of nothing but gold, silver, and precious stones, and unless he could accomplish this within an hour, the most frightful doom awaited him.
Who acts: Fairy, Prince, frightful doom · What happens: tell, build, make, accomplish, await · To what, where: precious stones, Prince, castle, other side, lake, this · 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, frightful doom), 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 | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 build | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 build | aux |
| 6 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 build | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 side | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 side | amod |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 build | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 lake | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lake | det |
| 15 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 side | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 lake | acl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 nothing | case |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 made | obl |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 gold | cc |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nothing | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 silver | punct |
| 23 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nothing | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stones | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 stones | cc |
| 26 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stones | amod |
| 27 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 told | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 accomplish | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 accomplish | cc |
| 30 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 33 accomplish | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 accomplish | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 accomplish | aux |
| 33 | accomplish | accomplish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | conj |
| 34 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 accomplish | obj |
| 35 | within | within | ADP | _ | 37 hour | case |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 hour | det |
| 37 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 accomplish | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 awaited | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 doom | det |
| 40 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 41 frightful | advmod |
| 41 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 doom | amod |
| 42 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 awaited | nsubj |
| 43 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 accomplish | conj |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 awaited | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Fairy | precious stones | Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | build | must | Prince | a castle | the other side of the lake | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent castle=Theme on side=Source | |||
| 3 | make | participle | the lake not said here | of nothing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | accomplish a condition, not said to happen | could | Prince | this | hour | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | await | past | the frightful doom | Prince | tree rules |
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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