The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 30
In a moment he seized the egg and flung it at the bird with all his might, and lo and behold! instead of the ugly monster the most beautiful girl he had ever seen stood before the astonished eyes of the Prince.
Who acts: hare, beautiful girl · What happens: seize, fling, see, stand · To what, where: egg, beautiful girl, astonished eyes
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 (hare, beautiful girl), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seized | nsubj |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 egg | det |
| 7 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 flung | cc |
| 9 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seized | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 flung | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 bird | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flung | obl |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 17 might | mark |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 might | det:predet |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 might | nmod:poss |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 flung | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lo | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lo | cc |
| 20 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 5 seized | discourse |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 behold | cc |
| 22 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 20 lo | conj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 lo | punct |
| 24 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 28 monster | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 instead | fixed |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 monster | det |
| 27 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 monster | amod |
| 28 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lo | obl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 girl | det |
| 30 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 31 beautiful | advmod |
| 31 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 girl | amod |
| 32 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 monster | appos |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 seen | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 seen | aux |
| 35 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 seen | advmod |
| 36 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 girl | acl:relcl |
| 37 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 seen | xcomp |
| 38 | before | before | ADP | _ | 41 eyes | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 eyes | det |
| 40 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 eyes | amod |
| 41 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 stood | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Prince | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Prince | det |
| 44 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 eyes | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | hare | the egg | moment | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | |||
| 2 | fling | past | hare not said here | egg | at the bird | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at bird=Destination | |||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | hare | the beautiful girl not said here | ever | tree rules | |||
| 4 | stand | participle | the beautiful girl not said here | the astonished eyes of the Prince | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before eye=Location |
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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