The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 3
Once upon a time there was a Glass Mountain at the top of which stood a castle made of pure gold, and in front of the castle there grew an apple-tree on which there were golden apples.
Who acts: Glass Mountain, top, golden apples · What happens: be, stand, make, grow · To what, where: castle, apple tree, front
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 (Glass Mountain, top, golden apples), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 was | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Mountain | det |
| 8 | Glass | Glass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mountain | compound |
| 9 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 top | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 top | det |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Mountain | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 top | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 castle | acl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 gold | case |
| 20 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gold | amod |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 grew | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 grew | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 front | case |
| 25 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 grew | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 castle | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 castle | det |
| 28 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 front | nmod |
| 29 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 castle | advmod |
| 30 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 was | conj |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 tree | det |
| 32 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 tree | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 apple | punct |
| 34 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 grew | obj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 which | case |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 were | obl |
| 37 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 38 were | expl |
| 38 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 tree | acl |
| 39 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 apples | amod |
| 40 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 were | nsubj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a Glass Mountain at the top | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | past | the top | a castle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | a castle not said here | of pure gold | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | a Glass Mountain at the top not said here | a apple tree | front of the castle | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | |||
| 5 | be | past | golden apples | a apple tree; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=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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