The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 54
However, when after an hour’s journey underground she found herself in a splendid palace with lovely gardens, she felt a little reassured, and was further cheered when she discovered that her pet cat and dog had followed her.
Who acts: child, hour · What happens: find, feel, reassure, cheer, discover, follow · To what, where: child, splendid palace, little, pet cat
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 (child, hour), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 22 felt | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 found | advmod |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 journey | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hour | det |
| 6 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 journey | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 hour | case |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl |
| 9 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 8 journey | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 felt | advcl |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 palace | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 15 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 palace | amod |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 gardens | case |
| 18 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gardens | amod |
| 19 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 palace | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 felt | nsubj |
| 22 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 little | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 reassured | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | reassured | reassure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 felt | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 cheered | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 cheered | cc |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 cheered | aux:pass |
| 29 | further | further | ADV | _ | 30 cheered | advmod |
| 30 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 felt | conj |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 discovered | advmod |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 discovered | nsubj |
| 33 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 cheered | advcl |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 followed | mark |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 cat | nmod:poss |
| 36 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cat | compound |
| 37 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 dog | cc |
| 39 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cat | conj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 followed | aux |
| 41 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 discovered | ccomp |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 followed | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | child | child | a splendid palace with lovely gardens | after a hour's journey | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | ||
| 2 | feel | past | child | however property | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reassure | participle | child not said here | a little | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | cheer | past · passive | child not said here | further property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 5 | discover | past | child | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | follow | past · perfect · passive | child's pet cat and dog | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme she=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | journey | a hour | nom journey «act 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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