The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 54

At the same moment a gate opened, and the youth perceived a courtyard full of flowers and beautiful trees, and on a balcony sat the lovely enchanted Princess with her retinue.

Who acts: gate, youth · What happens: open, perceive, sit, enchant · To what, where: courtyard, lovely enchanted Princess, balcony

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 (gate, youth), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moment	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moment	amod
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opened	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gate	det
6	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opened	nsubj
7	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 perceived	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 perceived	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youth	det
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perceived	nsubj
12	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 opened	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 courtyard	det
14	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perceived	obj
15	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 courtyard	amod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 flowers	case
17	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 full	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 trees	cc
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 trees	amod
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flowers	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sat	cc
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 balcony	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 balcony	det
25	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obl
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 opened	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Princess	det
28	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Princess	amod
29	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 Princess	amod
30	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 retinue	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 retinue	nmod:poss
33	retinue	retinue	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	a gate			moment		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	perceive	past	the youth	a courtyard				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer courtyard=Stimulus
3	sit	past	a gate not said here	the lovely enchanted Princess	a balcony		with gate's retinue	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme on balcony=Location
4	enchant	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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