The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 32
Evening closed in, and he strained his eyes to see if he could behold the top of the mountain.
Who acts: youth · What happens: even, close in, strain, see, behold · To what, where: eyes, top
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), 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 | Evening | even | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 strained | csubj |
| 2 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Evening | xcomp |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 2 closed | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 strained | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 strained | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 strained | nsubj |
| 7 | strained | strain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 strained | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 strained | advcl |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 behold | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 behold | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 behold | aux |
| 15 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 see | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 top | det |
| 17 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 behold | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mountain | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mountain | det |
| 20 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 top | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 strained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | even | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | close in | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | strain | past | youth | youth's eyes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | youth not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | behold a condition, not said to happen | could | youth | the top of the mountain | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer top=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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