The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 46
The creature in terror lifted him high up into the air and began to circle round the tower of the castle.
Who acts: creature · What happens: lift, begin, circle · To what, where: bird, 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 (creature), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 creature | det |
| 2 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 terror | case |
| 4 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 creature | nmod |
| 5 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lifted | obj |
| 7 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 up | advmod |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 lifted | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 began | cc |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lifted | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 circle | mark |
| 15 | circle | circle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 tower | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tower | det |
| 18 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 circle | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 castle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 castle | det |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tower | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | the creature in terror | bird | the air | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into air=Destination | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the creature in terror not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | circle | to-infinitive | the creature in terror not said here | round the tower of the castle | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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