The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 24

On the tallest of the rocks sat the giant as on a throne.

Who acts: tallest · What happens: sit · To what, where: giant

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tallest), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 tallest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tallest	det
3	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 sat	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 rocks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rocks	det
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tallest	obl
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sat	obj
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 throne	case
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 throne	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 throne	det
13	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the tallest	the giant				as a throne	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=Theme

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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