--- title: It was the only chance of seeing her lover before they were separate… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It was the only chance of seeing her lover before they were separated, and she did not hesitate to break the bottle and pour their contents into the basin, when the Rainbow appeared at once. Who acts: water, only chance, sun, Rainbow. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/86/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Glass Mountain(16), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/) / 86 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 86 It was the only chance of seeing her lover before they were separated, and she did not hesitate to break the bottle and pour their contents into the basin, when the Rainbow appeared at once. **Who acts:** water, only chance, sun, Rainbow · **What happens:** be, see, separate, not hesitate, break, pour · **To what, where:** only chance, lover, bottles, bottle, contents, basin This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, only chance, sun, Rainbow), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:23:86 # text = It was the only chance of seeing her lover before they were separated, and she did not hesitate to break the bottle and pour their contents into the basin, when the Rainbow appeared at once. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 lover lover NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 before before SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 separated separate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 hesitate hesitate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 pour pour VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 contents contents NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 25 obj _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 basin basin NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 when when SCONJ WRB _ 35 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Rainbow Rainbow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | water | the only chance | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | gerund | the only chance *not said here* | sun's lover | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lover=Stimulus | | 3 | **separate** | past · passive | | bottles *= bottle* | | | | | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **not** **hesitate** | past · do-support | sun | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **break** | to-infinitive | sun *not said here* | the bottle | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bottle=Patient | | 6 | **pour** | present | sun *not said here* | bottles's contents | | the basin | | | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent contents=Theme into basin=Destination | | 7 | **appear** | past | the Rainbow | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=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. - ← previous: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/87/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/)