The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 42
Every night it flew round the Glass Mountain keeping a careful look-out, and no sooner had the moon emerged from the clouds than the bird rose up from the apple-tree, and circling round in the air, caught sight of the sleeping youth.
Who acts: tree, moon, clouds · What happens: fly, keep, have, emerge, rise up, circle · To what, where: Glass Mountain, careful look out, clouds, apple tree, caught sight, air
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 (tree, moon, clouds), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 Mountain | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Mountain | det |
| 7 | Glass | Glass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mountain | compound |
| 8 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 9 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 flew | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 out | det |
| 11 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 out | amod |
| 12 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 out | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 out | punct |
| 14 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keeping | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 sooner | det |
| 18 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 had | advmod |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 moon | det |
| 21 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 emerged | nsubj |
| 22 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 had | ccomp |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 clouds | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 clouds | det |
| 25 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 emerged | obl |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 bird | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bird | det |
| 28 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rose | obl |
| 29 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 clouds | acl:relcl |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 rose | compound:prt |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 tree | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 tree | det |
| 33 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tree | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 apple | punct |
| 35 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rose | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 circling | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 circling | cc |
| 38 | circling | circle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 flew | advcl |
| 39 | round | round | ADV | _ | 38 circling | advmod |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 air | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 air | det |
| 42 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 circling | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 sight | punct |
| 44 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 sight | amod |
| 45 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 circling | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 youth | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 youth | det |
| 48 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 49 youth | amod |
| 49 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 sight | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | tree | the Glass Mountain | night | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round mountain=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | keep | gerund | tree not said here | a careful look out | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent out=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | tree not said here | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | emerge | past | the moon | the clouds | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cloud=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | rise up | past | the clouds not said here | the apple tree | than the bird | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | circle | gerund | tree not said here | caught sight of the sleeping youth | the air | round property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||
| 7 | catch | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | sleep | gerund | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | sight | the sleeping youth | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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