The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 10
She had not to wait long, for as soon as the girl thought her mother was safely out of the way, she changed herself and the Prince once more into their human shape, and set out cheerfully for the river.
Who acts: woman, girl, mother · What happens: have, not wait, think, be, change, set out · To what, where: way, woman, human shape · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, girl, mother), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wait | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 wait | mark |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 wait | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 soon | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 soon | case |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 wait | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 thought | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 soon | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 way | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 way | cop |
| 18 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 22 way | advmod |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 changed | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 changed | nsubj |
| 25 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 way | acl:relcl |
| 26 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 changed | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Prince | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Prince | det |
| 29 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 herself | conj |
| 30 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 31 more | advmod |
| 31 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 changed | advmod |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 shape | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 shape | nmod:poss |
| 34 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 shape | amod |
| 35 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 changed | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 set | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 set | cc |
| 38 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wait | conj |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 set | compound:prt |
| 40 | cheerfully | cheerfully | ADV | _ | 38 set | advmod |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 river | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 river | det |
| 43 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 set | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | woman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not wait | to-infinitive | woman not said here | long, soon property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the girl | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | woman's mother | the way | safely property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | change | past | woman | woman | into fugitives's human shape result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into shape=Result | |||
| 6 | set out | infinitive | woman not said here | for the river; cheerfully property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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