The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 86
But this time the Fairy had watched the Prince’s movements from her window, and she saw him hiding himself behind the rock with her daughter.
Who acts: Fairy, Prince · What happens: watch, see, hide, move · To what, where: movements, window, Prince, rock
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 watched | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watched | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fairy | det |
| 5 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 watched | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 watched | aux |
| 7 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 movements | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Prince | case |
| 11 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 watched | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 window | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 window | nmod:poss |
| 14 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 movements | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 watched | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | obj |
| 20 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 saw | xcomp |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 hiding | obj |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 24 rock | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rock | det |
| 24 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hiding | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 daughter | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 27 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hiding | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · perfect | the Fairy | the Prince's movements | Fairy's window | time | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme | ||
| 2 | see | past | Fairy | Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hide | gerund | Prince not said here | Prince | the rock | with Fairy's daughter | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind rock=Location | ||
| 4 | move | the Prince | Fairy's window | nom movement «act transitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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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