The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 59

She stood still to admire it, when, to her great surprise, she heard a voice addressing her which seemed to come from the centre of its rays.

Who acts: Princess, voice, rainbow · What happens: stand, admire, hear, address, seem, come · To what, where: rainbow, voice, centre

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 (Princess, voice, rainbow), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 admire	mark
5	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stood	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 admire	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 when	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	2 stood	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 surprise	punct
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 surprise	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 surprise	nmod:poss
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 surprise	amod
13	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 voice	det
18	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obj
19	addressing	address	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 voice	acl
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 seemed	nmod:poss
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 seemed	nsubj
22	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 addressing	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 come	mark
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 seemed	xcomp
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 centre	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 centre	det
27	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 rays	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 rays	nmod:poss
30	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 centre	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Princess			still	to Princess's great surprise	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	admire	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	rainbow				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	hear	past	Princess	a voice				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
4	address	gerund	a voice not said here					tree rules
5	seem	past						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	come	to-infinitive			the centre of rainbow's rays			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from centre=Initial_Location
7	surprise		Princess					nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
8	ray		rainbow					nom ray «phenomenon 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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