The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 41
One day, as Rosalie was walking up and down her room, she was surprised to see that the crystal which served for a wall had grown cloudy, as if some one had breathed on it, and, what was more, wherever she moved the brightness of the crystal always became clouded.
Who acts: Rosalie, One day, crystal · What happens: walk, be, see, serve, grow, breathe · To what, where: room, crystal, one, brightness · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Rosalie, One day, crystal), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 walking | mark |
| 5 | Rosalie | Rosalie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 walking | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 walking | aux |
| 7 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 surprised | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 walking | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 down | cc |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 up | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 room | nmod:poss |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walking | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 walking | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 surprised | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 surprised | cop |
| 16 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 surprised | advcl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 grown | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 crystal | det |
| 21 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 served | nsubj |
| 23 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 crystal | acl:relcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 wall | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 wall | det |
| 26 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 served | obl |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 grown | aux |
| 28 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 see | ccomp |
| 29 | cloudy | cloudy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 grown | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 breathed | punct |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 breathed | mark |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 breathed | mark |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 one | det |
| 34 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 breathed | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 breathed | aux |
| 36 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 grown | conj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 breathed | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 more | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 more | cc |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 more | punct |
| 42 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 44 more | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 more | cop |
| 44 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 surprised | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 moved | punct |
| 46 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 48 moved | advmod |
| 47 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 moved | nsubj |
| 48 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 surprised | parataxis |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 brightness | det |
| 50 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 moved | obj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 crystal | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 crystal | det |
| 53 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 brightness | nmod |
| 54 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 55 became | advmod |
| 55 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 moved | advcl |
| 56 | clouded | cloud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 55 became | xcomp |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | Rosalie | Rosalie's room | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | past | One day | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | One day not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | serve | past | the crystal | for a wall | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for wall=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | grow | past · perfect · passive | the crystal | cloudy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | breathe a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | some one | crystal | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on it=Destination | ||||
| 7 | is | past | more property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | move | past | Rosalie | the brightness of the crystal | wherever property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brightness=Theme | |||
| 9 | become | past | Rosalie not said here | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | cloud | participle | Rosalie not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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