The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 5
When the Fairy saw this her rage knew no bounds, and she used all her magic wits to make the pond disappear; she caused a hill of sand to arise at her feet, meaning it to dry up the water at once.
Who acts: Fairy, rage, pond, girl · What happens: see, know, use, make, disappear, cause · To what, where: bounds, magic wits, pond, hill, feet, water · 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 (Fairy, rage, pond, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fairy | det |
| 3 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 used | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 rage | det |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 rage | nmod:poss |
| 7 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 bounds | det |
| 10 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 knew | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 used | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 used | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 used | nsubj |
| 14 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 wits | det:predet |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wits | nmod:poss |
| 17 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wits | amod |
| 18 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 used | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 make | mark |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 used | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pond | det |
| 22 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 23 | disappear | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 pond | acl:relcl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 caused | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 caused | nsubj |
| 26 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 used | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 hill | det |
| 28 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 caused | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 sand | case |
| 30 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hill | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 arise | mark |
| 32 | arise | arise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 hill | acl |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 feet | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 feet | nmod:poss |
| 35 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 arise | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 meaning | punct |
| 37 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 caused | advcl |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 meaning | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 dry | mark |
| 40 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 meaning | advcl |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 dry | compound:prt |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 water | det |
| 43 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 dry | obj |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 once | case |
| 45 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 40 dry | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Fairy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | know | past | girl's rage | no bounds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | use | past | rage | girl's magic wits | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | rage not said here | the pond | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pond=Product | ||||
| 5 | disappear | present | the pond not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | cause | past | girl | a hill of sand | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition hill=Patient | ||||
| 7 | arise | to-infinitive | girl not said here | a hill of sand not said here | girl's feet | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | |||
| 8 | mean | gerund | girl not said here | pond | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 9 | dry up | to-infinitive | girl not said here | the water | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient water=Result | ||||
| 10 | rage | girl | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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