The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 40
As they were gazing at it, it suddenly split with a loud noise, and at the same moment the Wicked Queen expired.
Who acts: crown, childhood, Wicked Queen · What happens: gaze, split, expire
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crown, childhood, Wicked Queen), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 gazing | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gazing | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gazing | aux |
| 4 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 split | advcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gazing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gazing | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 split | nsubj |
| 9 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 10 split | advmod |
| 10 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 noise | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 noise | det |
| 13 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 noise | amod |
| 14 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 split | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 expired | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 expired | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 moment | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 moment | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 moment | amod |
| 20 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 expired | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Queen | det |
| 22 | Wicked | Wicked | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Queen | compound |
| 23 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 expired | nsubj |
| 24 | expired | expire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 split | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 split | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past · progressive | crown | at childhood | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | split | past | childhood | with a loud noise; suddenly property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with noise=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | expire | past | the Wicked Queen | moment | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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