The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 84
But before the Prince had time to feel despondent the black girl beckoned to him in the distance from behind a rock, where she had hidden herself for fear her mother should catch sight of her.
Who acts: Prince, implement · What happens: have, feel, beckon, hide, catch, sight · To what, where: black girl, Prince, implement, sight
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, implement), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 catch | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 catch | advcl |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 feel | mark |
| 8 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 time | acl |
| 9 | despondent | despondent | ADP | _ | 12 girl | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 girl | amod |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feel | obl |
| 13 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 girl | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 beckoned | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 distance | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 distance | det |
| 18 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beckoned | obl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 rock | case |
| 20 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 22 rock | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 rock | det |
| 22 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 distance | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hidden | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 hidden | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 hidden | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 hidden | aux |
| 27 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 rock | acl:relcl |
| 28 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 hidden | obj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 fear | case |
| 30 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hidden | obl |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 mother | nmod:poss |
| 32 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hidden | advcl |
| 33 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 catch | aux |
| 34 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 35 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 catch | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 her | case |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 sight | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Prince | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | despondent the black girl | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | beckon | participle | the black girl not said here | Prince | in the distance from a rock | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | hide | past · perfect | implement | implement | for fear | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 5 | catch | should | sight of implement | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||||
| 6 | sight | implement | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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