The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 17

It was so perfectly hung that a gentle breeze rocked it sufficiently to send you pleasantly to sleep.

Who acts: road, gentle breeze · What happens: be, rock, send, sleep · To what, where: road, you

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, gentle breeze), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hung	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hung	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 hung	advmod
4	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	5 hung	advmod
5	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 rocked	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 breeze	det
8	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 breeze	amod
9	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rocked	nsubj
10	rocked	rock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hung	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rocked	obj
12	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	_	10 rocked	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 send	mark
14	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 rocked	advcl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 send	iobj
16	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	14 send	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sleep	mark
18	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 send	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	road			hang, perfectly property	tree rules
2	rock	past	a gentle breeze	road		sufficiently property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	send	to-infinitive	a gentle breeze not said here		you	pleasantly property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	sleep	to-infinitive	a gentle breeze not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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