The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 60
One day when the youth was strolling about in the palace garden with the Princess, his wife, he looked down over the edge of the Glass Mountain and saw to his astonishment a great number of people gathered there.
Who acts: youth, great number · What happens: stroll, look down, see, gather, astonish · To what, where: astonishment
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 (youth, great number), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 strolling | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 youth | det |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strolling | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 strolling | aux |
| 7 | strolling | stroll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 garden | case |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 garden | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 garden | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 garden | compound |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strolling | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Princess | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Princess | det |
| 15 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 strolling | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wife | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Princess | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 looked | nsubj |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 looked | advmod |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 edge | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 edge | det |
| 25 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looked | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Mountain | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Mountain | det |
| 28 | Glass | Glass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Mountain | compound |
| 29 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 edge | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 saw | cc |
| 31 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 looked | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 astonishment | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 34 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 saw | obl |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 number | det |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 number | amod |
| 37 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 gathered | nsubj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 people | case |
| 39 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 number | nmod |
| 40 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 astonishment | acl:relcl |
| 41 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 gathered | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroll | past · progressive | the youth | about the palace garden; with the Princess | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about garden=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | look down | past | youth | day | over the edge of the Glass Mountain; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over edge=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | past | youth not said here | to youth's astonishment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | gather | past | a great number of people | youth's astonishment not said here | there | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent astonishment=Theme | |||
| 5 | astonish | youth | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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