The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 55
‘You are looking for the Mother Dragon’s mare who is galloping about among the clouds.
Who acts: You, mare · What happens: look, gallop · To what, where: clouds
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, mare), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | aux |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 mare | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Dragon | det |
| 7 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Dragon | compound |
| 8 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mare | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Dragon | case |
| 10 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 galloping | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 galloping | aux |
| 13 | galloping | gallop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 mare | acl:relcl |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 galloping | advmod |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 clouds | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 clouds | det |
| 17 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 galloping | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present · progressive | You | for the Mother Dragon's mare | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for mare=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gallop | present · progressive | the Mother Dragon's mare | the clouds | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among cloud=Trajectory |
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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