The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 98
One day, after a long morning’s chase he stopped to rest near a brook in the shade of a little wood, where a splendid tent had been prepared for him.
Who acts: King, long morning · What happens: stop, rest, prepare, chase, shade · To what, where: brook, splendid tent, little wood
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 (King, long morning), 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 | 11 stopped | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 chase | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 morning | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 morning | amod |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chase | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 morning | case |
| 9 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stopped | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stopped | nsubj |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 rest | mark |
| 13 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stopped | xcomp |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 brook | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 brook | det |
| 16 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rest | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 shade | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shade | det |
| 19 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rest | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 wood | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wood | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wood | amod |
| 23 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shade | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 prepared | punct |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 prepared | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 tent | det |
| 27 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tent | amod |
| 28 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 prepared | aux |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 prepared | aux:pass |
| 31 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 wood | acl:relcl |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 prepared | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | King | after a long morning's chase; day | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | King not said here | a brook | in the shade of a little wood | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near brook=Location | |||
| 3 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | a splendid tent | for King | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | chase | a long morning | nom chase «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | shade | a little wood | nom shade «state 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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