The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 30
He opened his mouth, but the black cloud sailed past and not as much as a drop of dew moistened his dry lips.
Who acts: youth, black cloud, dew · What happens: open, sail, moisten · To what, where: mouth, dry lips
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 (youth, black cloud, dew), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sailed | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 sailed | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cloud | det |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cloud | amod |
| 9 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sailed | nsubj |
| 10 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | parataxis |
| 11 | past | past | ADV | _ | 10 sailed | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 much | cc |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 much | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sailed | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 drop | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 drop | det |
| 18 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 much | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 dew | case |
| 20 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drop | nmod |
| 21 | moistened | moisten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 dew | acl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 lips | nmod:poss |
| 23 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lips | amod |
| 24 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 moistened | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | youth | youth's mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sail | past | the black cloud | past property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | moisten | participle | dew not said here | youth's dry lips | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lip=Patient |
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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