The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 63
And his beautiful guide told him that this was the palace in which her father lived and reigned over his kingdom in the Under-world.
Who acts: beautiful guide, this, father · What happens: tell, be, live, reign · To what, where: rock, palace, kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (beautiful guide, this, father), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 told | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 guide | nmod:poss |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 guide | amod |
| 4 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 palace | mark |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 palace | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 palace | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | ccomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lived | obl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 palace | acl:relcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 reigned | cc |
| 18 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lived | conj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 kingdom | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 21 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reigned | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 24 | Under | Under | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 world | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Under | punct |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reigned | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | rock's beautiful guide | rock | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | this | the palace | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | past | guide's father | the palace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 4 | reign | past | guide's father not said here | father's kingdom | in the Under world | 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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