The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 41
Now the golden apple-tree was guarded by the eagle which had overthrown the golden knight and his horse.
Who acts: eagle · What happens: guard, overthrow · To what, where: golden apple tree, eagle
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 (eagle), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 guarded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 4 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 apple | punct |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 guarded | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 guarded | aux:pass |
| 8 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 eagle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eagle | det |
| 11 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 guarded | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 overthrown | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 overthrown | aux |
| 14 | overthrown | overthrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 eagle | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 knight | det |
| 16 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 knight | amod |
| 17 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 overthrown | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 horse | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 horse | nmod:poss |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knight | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 guarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | past · passive | the eagle | the golden apple tree | now | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | overthrow | past · perfect · passive | the eagle | 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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