The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 114
Then the maiden opened the box and took the ring out, and it glittered as she held it like the clearest sunbeam.
Who acts: maiden, ring · What happens: open, take out, glitter, hold · To what, where: box, ring
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, ring), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 box | det |
| 6 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ring | det |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 took | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 glittered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 glittered | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 glittered | nsubj |
| 15 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 held | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 held | nsubj |
| 18 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 glittered | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 held | obj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 sunbeam | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sunbeam | det |
| 22 | clearest | clear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 sunbeam | amod |
| 23 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 held | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the maiden | the box | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme | |||
| 2 | take out | past | the maiden not said here | the ring | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glitter | past | ring | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hold | past | maiden | ring | like the clearest sunbeam | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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