The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 36
It was almost pitch dark now, and only the stars lit up the Glass Mountain.
Who acts: ascent · What happens: be, lit up · To what, where: stars
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 (ascent), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pitch | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pitch | cop |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 pitch | advmod |
| 4 | pitch | pitch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pitch | xcomp |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 pitch | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lit | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lit | cc |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 stars | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stars | det |
| 11 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lit | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pitch | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 lit | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Mountain | det |
| 15 | Glass | Glass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mountain | compound |
| 16 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lit | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pitch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | ascent | now | almost, dark, pitch property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lit up | participle · passive | the stars | tree rules |
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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