The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 4
At last a king’s daughter came into the wood; she had lost her way, and could not find her father’s kingdom again.
Who acts: last daughter, daughter · What happens: come, lose, not find · To what, where: wood, way, kingdom
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 (last daughter, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 daughter | amod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 lost | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lost | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lost | aux |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 came | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 way | nmod:poss |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lost | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 find | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 find | cc |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 find | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 find | advmod |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 came | conj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 father | case |
| 25 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obj |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 find | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a king's last daughter | the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | lose | past · perfect | daughter | daughter's way | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not find | could | a king's last daughter not said here | daughter's father's kingdom | again | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Topic |
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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