The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 34

A yawning abyss, with certain and terrible death at the bottom, reeking with half-decayed bodies of horses and riders!

What happens: yawn, reek, decay

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: 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 abyss	det
2	yawning	yawn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 abyss	amod
3	abyss	abyss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 death	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 death	case
6	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 death	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 terrible	cc
8	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 certain	conj
9	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 abyss	appos
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 bottom	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bottom	det
12	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 death	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reeking	punct
14	reeking	reek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 abyss	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 bodies	case
16	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	18 decayed	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 half	punct
18	decayed	decay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 bodies	amod
19	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 reeking	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 horses	case
21	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bodies	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 riders	cc
23	riders	rider	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 horses	conj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 abyss	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	yawn	gerund		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reek	gerund	with decayed bodies of horses and riders	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	decay	participle		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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