The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 56
Then she told everything that had happened to her, and how, because she had exceeded her permission only to speak three words, the stove had disappeared with the Prince; and how she had searched a very long time, and must wander over mountain and valley till she found him.
Who acts: princess, stove · What happens: tell, happen, exceed, speak, disappear, search · To what, where: everything, princess, three words, mountain, prince · 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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 told | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | aux |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 everything | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 happened | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 speak | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 speak | cc |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 exceeded | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 exceeded | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 exceeded | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 exceeded | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 exceeded | aux |
| 17 | exceeded | exceed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 speak | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 permission | nmod:poss |
| 19 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 exceeded | obj |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 speak | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 speak | mark |
| 22 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | conj |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 words | nummod |
| 24 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 speak | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 disappeared | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 stove | det |
| 27 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 disappeared | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 disappeared | aux |
| 29 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 words | appos |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 Prince | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Prince | det |
| 32 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 disappeared | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 searched | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 searched | cc |
| 35 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 searched | advmod |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 searched | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 searched | aux |
| 38 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 told | conj |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 time | det |
| 40 | very | very | ADV | _ | 41 long | advmod |
| 41 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 time | amod |
| 42 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 searched | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 wander | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 wander | cc |
| 45 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 wander | aux |
| 46 | wander | wander | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 38 searched | parataxis |
| 47 | over | over | ADV | _ | 48 mountain | advmod |
| 48 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 wander | obj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 valley | cc |
| 50 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 mountain | conj |
| 51 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 53 found | mark |
| 52 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 found | nsubj |
| 53 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 wander | advcl |
| 54 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 found | obj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | princess | everything | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient | |||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | princess | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | exceed | past · perfect · passive | princess | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | princess not said here | three words | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | disappear | past · perfect | the stove | with the Prince | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | search | past · perfect | princess | time | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | wander | must | mountain and valley | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mountain=Trajectory | |||||
| 8 | find | past | princess | prince | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 9 | permit | princess | nom permission «communication 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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