The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 37

He entered, and in the middle of a long gallery he discovered a crystal room, in the midst of which sat Rosalie, guarded night and day by genii.

Who acts: Prince, midst · What happens: enter, discover, sit, guard · To what, where: crystal room, middle, Rosalie

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, midst), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 entered	nsubj
2	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 discovered	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 discovered	cc
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 middle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 middle	det
7	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 discovered	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 gallery	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 gallery	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gallery	amod
11	gallery	gallery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 middle	nmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 discovered	nsubj
13	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entered	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 room	det
15	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 room	amod
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 discovered	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 midst	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 midst	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 midst	det
20	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 discovered	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 sat	nsubj
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 midst	acl:relcl
24	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 sat	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 night	punct
26	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 night	amod
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Rosalie	appos
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 day	cc
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 night	conj
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 genii	case
31	genii	genii	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sat	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	past	Prince				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	discover	past	Prince	a crystal room	the middle of a long gallery	in the midst	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Topic
3	sit	past	the midst	Rosalie		by genii	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent rosalie=Theme by genii=Location
4	guard	participle					vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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 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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