The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 18
So they consulted together, and determined that the miller’s daughter, who was very beautiful, should take her place.
Who acts: wishes, daughter · What happens: consult, determine, be, take · To what, where: place
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wishes, daughter), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 consulted | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 consulted | nsubj |
| 3 | consulted | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 consulted | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 determined | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 determined | cc |
| 7 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consulted | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 beautiful | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 miller | det |
| 10 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 miller | case |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beautiful | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beautiful | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 beautiful | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 beautiful | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 take | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beautiful | punct |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 determined | ccomp |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 place | nmod:poss |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult | past | wishes = wish | together property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | determine | past | wishes = wish not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the miller's daughter | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | should | wishes = wish not said here | daughter's place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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