The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 78
Every morning she placed a large basin full of water on her window-sill, and as soon as the sun’s rays fell on the water the Rainbow appeared as clearly as it had ever done in the fountain.
Who acts: heroine, rays, Rainbow, sun · What happens: place, fall, appear, do, ray · To what, where: large basin, window sill, water, basin, fountain
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 (heroine, rays, Rainbow, sun), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 placed | nsubj |
| 4 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 basin | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 basin | amod |
| 7 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obj |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 basin | amod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 full | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 sill | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sill | nmod:poss |
| 13 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sill | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 window | punct |
| 15 | sill | sill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 appeared | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 appeared | cc |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 soon | advmod |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 appeared | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 fell | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sun | det |
| 22 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rays | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 sun | case |
| 24 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fell | nsubj |
| 25 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 appeared | advcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 water | det |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fell | obl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Rainbow | det |
| 30 | Rainbow | Rainbow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 appeared | nsubj |
| 31 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 placed | conj |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 clearly | advmod |
| 33 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 31 appeared | advmod |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 done | mark |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 done | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 done | aux |
| 37 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 38 done | advmod |
| 38 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 appeared | advcl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 fountain | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 fountain | det |
| 41 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 done | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | heroine | a large basin | heroine's window sill | morning | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent basin=Theme on sill=Destination | ||
| 2 | fall | past | the sun's rays | the water | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on water=Location | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | the Rainbow | clearly, soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect · passive | basin | the fountain | ever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | ray | the sun | 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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