The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 54

Nor was that strange, for the hill was as smooth as a glass window-pane, and as steep as the side of a house.

Who acts: Nor, hill · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nor, hill), 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	Nor	Nor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 strange	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strange	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 strange	mark
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 smooth	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 smooth	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smooth	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 smooth	cop
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 smooth	advmod
11	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 strange	conj
12	as	as	ADP	_	17 pane	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pane	det
14	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pane	compound
15	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pane	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 window	punct
17	pane	pane	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smooth	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 steep	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 steep	cc
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 steep	advmod
21	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 strange	conj
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 side	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 side	det
24	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 steep	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 house	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 house	det
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 side	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 strange	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nor	strange property	tree rules
2	is	past	the hill	as a glass window pane; smooth property	tree rules
3	be		Nor not said here	as the side of a house	tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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