The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 27
The sun was nearly going down, and the youth had not got more than half-way up.
Who acts: sun, youth · What happens: go down, not get · To what, where: more
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 (sun, youth), 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 | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 going | advmod |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 going | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 got | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youth | det |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 got | advmod |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 going | conj |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 got | obj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 16 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 18 way | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 half | punct |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 more | obl |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 way | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past · progressive | the sun | down, nearly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not get | past · perfect | the youth | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
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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