The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 23
For long he had heard his parents speak of the beautiful Princess who sat in the golden castle at the top of the Glass Mountain.
Who acts: man, parents, beautiful Princess · What happens: hear, speak, sit · To what, where: golden castle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, parents, beautiful Princess), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 long | case |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 parents | nmod:poss |
| 7 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 speak | nsubj |
| 8 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | parataxis |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Princess | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Princess | amod |
| 12 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 speak | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 sat | nsubj |
| 14 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 castle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 castle | amod |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sat | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 top | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 top | det |
| 21 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sat | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Mountain | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Mountain | det |
| 24 | Glass | Glass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Mountain | compound |
| 25 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 top | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | man | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | man's parents | of the beautiful Princess | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | the beautiful Princess | the golden castle | at the top of the Glass Mountain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in castle=Location |
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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