The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 13
The whole neighbourhood had the appearance of a vast churchyard.
Who acts: whole neighbourhood · What happens: have · To what, where: appearance
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole neighbourhood), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 neighbourhood | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 neighbourhood | amod |
| 3 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 appearance | det |
| 6 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 churchyard | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 churchyard | det |
| 9 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 churchyard | amod |
| 10 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appearance | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the whole neighbourhood | the appearance of a vast churchyard | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=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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