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The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 49

As she spoke they reached the Castle of Steel, the side next the sea being the only one which the Yellow Dwarf had left unprotected by the dreadful burning walls.

Who acts: Mermaid, people, Castle, Yellow Dwarf, only one · What happens: speak, reach, be, leave, unprotect · To what, where: only one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mermaid, people, Castle, Yellow Dwarf), 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

marknsubjnsubjccompdetnsubjcasenmodpunctdetnsubjcasedetnmodcopdetamodccompobjdetamodnsubjauxacl:relclxcompcasedetamodcompoundoblpunctrootAsSCONJshePRONspokeVERBtheyPRONreachedVERBtheDETCastlePROPNofADPSteelPROPN,PUNCTtheDETsideNOUNnextADPtheDETseaNOUNbeingAUXtheDETonlyADJoneNOUNwhichPRONtheDETYellowADJDwarfPROPNhadAUXleftVERBunprotectedVERBbyADPtheDETdreadfulADJburningNOUNwallsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasSCONJ_3 spokemark
2sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 spokensubj
3spokespeakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs5 reachednsubj
5reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 spokeccomp
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 Castledet
7CastleCastlePROPNNumber=Sing19 onensubj
8ofofADP_9 Steelcase
9SteelSteelPROPNNumber=Sing7 Castlenmod
10,,PUNCT_12 sidepunct
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 sidedet
12sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing19 onensubj
13nextnextADP_15 seacase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 seadet
15seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing12 sidenmod
16beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 onecop
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 onedet
18onlyonlyADJDegree=Pos19 oneamod
19oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing5 reachedccomp
20whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel25 leftobj
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 Dwarfdet
22YellowyellowADJDegree=Pos23 Dwarfamod
23DwarfDwarfPROPNNumber=Sing25 leftnsubj
24hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 leftaux
25leftleaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part19 oneacl:relcl
26unprotectedunprotectVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 leftxcomp
27bybyADP_31 wallscase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 wallsdet
29dreadfuldreadfulADJDegree=Pos31 wallsamod
30burningburningNOUNNumber=Sing31 wallscompound
31wallswallNOUNNumber=Plur26 unprotectedobl
32..PUNCT_3 spokepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1speak speech: otherpastMermaidtree rules
2reachpastpeoplevn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3is agerundthe Castle of Steelthe only onetree rules
4leavepast · perfectthe Yellow Dwarfthe only onetree rules
5unprotectparticiplethe only one not said hereby the dreadful burning wallstree 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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