The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 87

He perceived in one corner a door leading into the mountain, and at the foot of the mountain was a high rock on which was fixed an iron ring with a cord attached.

Who acts: Prince, door, high rock · What happens: perceive, lead, be, fix, attach · To what, where: door, one corner, mountain, foot, iron ring, high rock

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, door, high rock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:1224): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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 perceived	nsubj
2	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 corner	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 corner	nummod
5	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 perceived	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 perceived	obj
8	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 door	acl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 mountain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mountain	det
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leading	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 foot	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 foot	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 foot	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 foot	det
16	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 perceived	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 mountain	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mountain	det
19	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 foot	nmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 foot	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 rock	det
22	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 rock	amod
23	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 foot	nsubj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 fixed	obl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fixed	aux:pass
27	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 rock	acl:relcl
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 ring	det
29	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ring	compound
30	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fixed	nsubj:pass
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 cord	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 cord	det
33	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ring	nmod
34	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 cord	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	Prince	a door	one corner		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus
2	lead	gerund	a door not said here		the mountain		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into mountain=Destination
3	is	past	a high rock		the foot	of the mountain	tree rules
4	fix	past · passive		a iron ring with a cord	a high rock		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
5	attach	participle		a cord not said here			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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