The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 21
Then there arrived on the scene a mere schoolboy--a merry, happy-hearted youth, but at the same time strong and well-grown.
What happens: arrive, grow · To what, where: scene
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 arrived | expl |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 scene | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 scene | det |
| 6 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 schoolboy | det |
| 8 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 schoolboy | amod |
| 9 | schoolboy | schoolboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scene | appos |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 youth | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 youth | det |
| 12 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 youth | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 merry | punct |
| 14 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hearted | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 happy | punct |
| 16 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 youth | amod |
| 17 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 schoolboy | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 strong | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 strong | cc |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 strong | obl |
| 24 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 arrived | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 grown | cc |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 grown | advmod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 well | punct |
| 28 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 strong | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the scene; there | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | participle | well property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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