The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 99
Whilst at luncheon he suddenly spied a little monkey of the brightest green sitting on a tree and gazing so tenderly at him that he felt quite moved.
Who acts: King · What happens: spy, sit, gaze, feel, move · To what, where: little monkey, tree
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), 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 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 3 luncheon | case |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 luncheon | case |
| 3 | luncheon | luncheon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spied | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spied | nsubj |
| 5 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 6 spied | advmod |
| 6 | spied | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 monkey | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 monkey | amod |
| 9 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spied | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 brightest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brightest | det |
| 12 | brightest | bright | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 monkey | acl:relcl |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 brightest | xcomp |
| 14 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 green | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sitting | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gazing | cc |
| 19 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 sitting | conj |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 tenderly | advmod |
| 21 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gazing | xcomp |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 tenderly | obl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 felt | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 felt | nsubj |
| 26 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gazing | advcl |
| 27 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 28 moved | advmod |
| 28 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 felt | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spy | past | King | a little monkey | whilst luncheon; suddenly property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monkey=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | sit | gerund | King not said here | a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | gaze | gerund | King not said here | tenderly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | King | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | move | participle | King not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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