The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 16
After a time her road led through a wood, full of soft airs and sweet odours, and before she had gone a hundred yards she saw a wonderful silver Castle suspended by strong silver chains to four of the largest trees.
Who acts: road, Fairy · What happens: lead, go, see, suspend · To what, where: wood, hundred yards, wonderful silver Castle
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, Fairy), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 road | nmod:poss |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | nsubj |
| 6 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wood | det |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 full | punct |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wood | amod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 airs | case |
| 13 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 airs | amod |
| 14 | airs | air | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 full | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 odours | cc |
| 16 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 odours | amod |
| 17 | odours | odour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 airs | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gone | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gone | cc |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 gone | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gone | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 gone | aux |
| 23 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 led | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hundred | det |
| 25 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 yards | nummod |
| 26 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gone | obj |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 saw | nsubj |
| 28 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 yards | acl:relcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 Castle | det |
| 30 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Castle | amod |
| 31 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Castle | compound |
| 32 | Castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 saw | obj |
| 33 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 Castle | acl |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 chains | case |
| 35 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 chains | amod |
| 36 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 chains | compound |
| 37 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 suspended | obl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 four | case |
| 39 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 suspended | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 trees | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 trees | det |
| 42 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 43 trees | amod |
| 43 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 four | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | Fairy's road | a wood | time | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through wood=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | Fairy | hundred yards | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yard=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Fairy | a wonderful silver Castle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | suspend | participle | a wonderful silver Castle not said here | by strong silver chains; to four of the largest trees | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chain=Location |
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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