The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 89
And to make the time pass pleasantly, she took the youth over every part of her beautiful dwelling, and showed him all her splendid treasures.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: make, pass, take, show, treasure · To what, where: youth, part, splendid treasures, foot
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 make | cc |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 make | mark |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 6 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | xcomp |
| 7 | pleasantly | pleasantly | ADV | _ | 6 pass | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 youth | det |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 part | case |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 part | det |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 dwelling | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dwelling | amod |
| 19 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 part | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 showed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 showed | cc |
| 22 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 showed | iobj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 treasures | det:predet |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 26 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 treasures | amod |
| 27 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 showed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | time | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | infinitive | pleasantly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | maiden | the youth | every part of maiden's beautiful dwelling | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme | |||
| 4 | show | past | maiden not said here | maiden's splendid treasures | foot | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient treasure=Topic | |||
| 5 | treasure | maiden | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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