The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 31
But while all this was going on the wicked old Fairy had managed to make her way out of the wood, and was now using the last resource in her power to overtake her daughter and the Prince.
Who acts: this · What happens: go, manage, make, use, overtake · To what, where: way, wood, last resource, power, daughter
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 (this), 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 | _ | 13 managed | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 going | mark |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 going | det:predet |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 going | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | aux |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 managed | advcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Fairy | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fairy | det |
| 9 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Fairy | amod |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Fairy | amod |
| 11 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 going | obl |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 managed | aux |
| 13 | managed | manage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 managed | xcomp |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 way | nmod:poss |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wood | det |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 using | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 using | cc |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 using | aux |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 using | advmod |
| 26 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 managed | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 resource | det |
| 28 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 resource | amod |
| 29 | resource | resource | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 using | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 power | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 power | nmod:poss |
| 32 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 using | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 overtake | mark |
| 34 | overtake | overtake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 using | advcl |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 36 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 overtake | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 Prince | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Prince | det |
| 39 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 daughter | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | this | on the wicked old Fairy | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on fairy=Location | ||||
| 2 | manage | past · perfect | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | girl's way | the wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | ||||
| 4 | use | past · progressive | the last resource | girl's power | now | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resource=Patient | |||
| 5 | overtake | to-infinitive | girl's daughter and the 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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