The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 36
Filled with joy, he made his way to the top of the mountain which pierced the clouds, and there he found a palace.
Who acts: Prince, mountain · What happens: fill, make, pierce, find · To what, where: way, clouds, palace
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 (Prince, mountain), 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 | Filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 made | advcl |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 joy | case |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Filled | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Filled | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 top | det |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mountain | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountain | det |
| 14 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 top | nmod |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 pierced | nsubj |
| 16 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 clouds | det |
| 18 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pierced | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 found | cc |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 found | expl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 found | nsubj |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 palace | det |
| 25 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 found | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | participle | Prince not said here | with joy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with joy=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Prince | Prince's way | to the top of the mountain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product | |||
| 3 | pierce | past | the mountain | the clouds | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Patient | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Prince | a palace | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Topic |
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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