The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 48
He saw the glittering palace, which by the pale rays of the moon looked like a dim lamp; and he saw the high windows, and round one of them a balcony in which the beautiful Princess sat lost in sad thoughts.
Who acts: bird, glittering palace, round one · What happens: see, glitter, look, balcony, lose, ray · To what, where: high windows, beautiful Princess, balcony, moon · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bird, glittering palace, round one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 4 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 palace | amod |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rays | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 rays | nsubj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 rays | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rays | det |
| 10 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rays | amod |
| 11 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 palace | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 moon | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moon | det |
| 14 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rays | nmod |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | ccomp |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 lamp | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lamp | det |
| 18 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lamp | amod |
| 19 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 saw | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 saw | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 windows | det |
| 25 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 windows | amod |
| 26 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 saw | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 balcony | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 balcony | cc |
| 29 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 one | amod |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 balcony | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 one | nmod |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 balcony | det |
| 34 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saw | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 which | case |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 lost | obl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Princess | det |
| 38 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Princess | amod |
| 39 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 lost | aux:pass |
| 41 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 balcony | acl:relcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 thoughts | case |
| 43 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 thoughts | amod |
| 44 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 lost | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | look | past | the glittering palace | like a dim lamp | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | past | bird | the high windows | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | balcony | round one of rays | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | lose | past · passive | the beautiful Princess | a balcony | in sad thoughts | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | ray | the moon | nom ray «phenomenon 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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