The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 64
All those who have perished on this mountain are awakening up to-day, as it were from a sleep, and are mounting their horses, and the whole population are gazing on this unheard-of wonder with joy and amazement.’
Who acts: those, blood, whole population · What happens: perish, awaken up, be, mount, gaze · To what, where: mountain, sleep, horses
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 (those, blood, whole population), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 those | det:predet |
| 2 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 awakening | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 perished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 perished | aux |
| 5 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 those | acl:relcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 mountain | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 mountain | det |
| 8 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perished | obl |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 awakening | aux |
| 10 | awakening | awaken | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 awakening | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 to | punct |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 awakening | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sleep | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 sleep | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sleep | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sleep | cop |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 sleep | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sleep | det |
| 21 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 awakening | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mounting | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 mounting | cc |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 mounting | aux |
| 25 | mounting | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 awakening | conj |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 horses | nmod:poss |
| 27 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 mounting | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 gazing | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 gazing | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 population | det |
| 31 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 population | amod |
| 32 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gazing | nsubj |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 gazing | aux |
| 34 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 awakening | conj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 wonder | case |
| 36 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 wonder | nsubj |
| 37 | unheard | unheard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 wonder | amod |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 wonder | punct |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 wonder | case |
| 40 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gazing | obl |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 joy | case |
| 42 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wonder | nmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 amazement | cc |
| 44 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wonder | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 awakening | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 awakening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perish | present · perfect · passive | this mountain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | awaken up | present · progressive | those | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | blood | a sleep | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mount | present · progressive | those not said here | people's horses | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 5 | gaze | present · progressive | the whole population | on unheard wonder with joy and amazement | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on wonder=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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