The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 78
The maiden seated herself upon the golden chair, and offered the silver one to her companion.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: seat, offer · To what, where: maiden, silver one, companion
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), 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 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | nsubj |
| 3 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 seated | obj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 chair | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chair | det |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chair | amod |
| 8 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 offered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 offered | cc |
| 11 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seated | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 offered | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 companion | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 companion | nmod:poss |
| 17 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 offered | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past | the maiden | maiden | upon the golden chair | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value | |||
| 2 | offer | past | the maiden not said here | the silver one | to maiden's companion goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent one=Theme to companion=Goal |
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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