The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 82

But imagine the distress of the Prince when, from the giddy height at which they were rushing through the air, he saw his beloved Princess in a castle built of polished steel, the walls of which reflected the sun’s rays so hotly that no one could approach it without being burnt to a cinder!

Who acts: you, princes, Desert, walls, one, sun · What happens: imagine, rush, see, build, polish, reflect · To what, where: distress, giddy height, beloved Princess, castle, rays, Prince

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (you, princes, Desert, walls), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 imagine	cc
2	imagine	imagine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 distress	det
4	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 imagine	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Prince	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Prince	det
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 distress	nmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	2 imagine	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 height	punct
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 height	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 height	det
12	giddy	giddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 height	amod
13	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 imagine	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 rushing	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rushing	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 rushing	aux
18	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 height	acl
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 air	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 air	det
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rushing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 imagine	parataxis
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 Princess	nmod:poss
26	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Princess	amod
27	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saw	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 castle	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 castle	det
30	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saw	obl
31	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 castle	acl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 steel	case
33	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 steel	amod
34	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 built	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 walls	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 walls	det
37	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 castle	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 which	case
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 reflected	nsubj
40	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 walls	acl:relcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 sun	det
42	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 rays	nmod:poss
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 sun	case
44	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 reflected	obj
45	so	so	ADV	_	46 hotly	advmod
46	hotly	hotly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 reflected	xcomp
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 approach	mark
48	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	49 one	det
49	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 approach	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 approach	aux
51	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 hotly	advcl
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 approach	obj
53	without	without	SCONJ	_	55 burnt	mark
54	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 burnt	aux:pass
55	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 approach	advcl
56	to	to	ADP	_	58 cinder	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 cinder	det
58	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 burnt	obl
59	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	imagine	imperative	you not said here	the distress of the Prince	the giddy height		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot distress=Theme
2	rush	past · progressive	princes = prince		the giddy height	through the air	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at which=Trajectory
3	see	past	Desert	Desert's beloved Princess	a castle and the walls		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
4	build	participle		a castle and the walls not said here		of polished steel	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	polish	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
6	reflect	past	the walls	the sun's rays		hotly property	tree rules
7	approach	could	no one	distress			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	burnt	gerund · passive	no one not said here			to a cinder	tree rules
9	distress			the Prince			nom distress «feeling transitive»: of=patient
10	ray		the sun				nom ray «phenomenon 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 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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