The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 14

In three more days the seven years would be at an end, when a knight in golden armour and mounted on a spirited steed was seen making his way towards the fatal hill.

Who acts: seven years, knight · What happens: be, mount, see, make · To what, where: three more days, end, spirited steed, knight, way

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 (seven years, knight), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 days	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 years	det
6	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 end	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 end	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 end	cop
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 days	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seen	punct
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 seen	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 knight	det
16	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seen	nsubj:pass
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 armour	case
18	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 armour	amod
19	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knight	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 mounted	cc
21	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 armour	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 steed	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 steed	det
24	spirited	spirited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 steed	amod
25	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mounted	obl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux:pass
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 end	acl:relcl
28	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 seen	xcomp
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 way	nmod:poss
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 making	obj
31	towards	towards	ADP	_	34 hill	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hill	det
33	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hill	amod
34	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 making	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 days	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the seven years	three more days not said here		at a end		tree rules
2	mount	participle			a spirited steed			vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on steed=Destination
3	see	past · passive		a knight in golden armour				tree rules
4	make	gerund	a knight in golden armour not said here	neighbourhood's way			towards the fatal hill	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product

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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