The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 107
The palace must be joined together by a bridge of pure crystal.
Who acts: bridge · What happens: join · To what, where: palace
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridge), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 palace | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 joined | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 joined | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 joined | aux:pass |
| 5 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 joined | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 bridge | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bridge | det |
| 9 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 joined | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 crystal | case |
| 11 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 crystal | amod |
| 12 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bridge | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | must · passive | a bridge of pure crystal | the palace | together property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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