The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 186
This time she did not take him to a splendid palace, but to a deep cave in a rock, where there were chains hanging from the wall.
Who acts: maiden, chains · What happens: not take, be, hang · To what, where: love, splendid palace, chains, wall
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, chains), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 take | advmod |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 10 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 palace | amod |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 chains | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 chains | cc |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 cave | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cave | det |
| 16 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cave | amod |
| 17 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 chains | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 rock | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 rock | det |
| 20 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cave | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 were | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 were | advmod |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 were | expl |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 chains | cop |
| 25 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 take | obl |
| 26 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 chains | acl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 wall | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wall | det |
| 29 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hanging | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | past · do-support | maiden | love | a splendid palace | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to palace=Destination | ||
| 2 | is a | past | chains | to a deep cave in a rock | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hang | gerund | chains not said here | the wall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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