The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 41

So she went home, but alas! she said MORE THAN THREE WORDS; and immediately the iron stove vanished and went away over a mountain of glass and sharp swords.

Who acts: princess, alas, iron stove · What happens: go, say, vanish, go away · To what, where: THREE WORDS, mountain · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (princess, alas, iron stove), 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 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
7	alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 alas	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	MORE	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	13 THREE	advmod
12	THAN	than	DET	PronType=Ind	11 MORE	fixed
13	THREE	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 WORDS	nummod
14	WORDS	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 vanished	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 vanished	cc
17	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	21 vanished	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stove	det
19	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stove	compound
20	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 vanished	nsubj
21	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 vanished	conj
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 went	advmod
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 mountain	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 mountain	det
27	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 glass	case
29	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mountain	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 swords	cc
31	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 swords	amod
32	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 mountain	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	princess			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	alas	THREE WORDS			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	vanish	past	the iron stove			immediately property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go away	past	the iron stove not said here		a mountain of glass and sharp swords	away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Initial_Location

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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