The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 18

Fairer-than-a-Fairy felt a strong desire to enter this Castle, but besides being hung a little above the ground there seemed to be neither doors nor windows.

Who acts: Fairer · What happens: feel, enter, hang, seem, be · To what, where: strong desire, Castle, little, ground, doors

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 (Fairer), 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	Fairer	Fairer	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 felt	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Fairy	punct
3	than	than	ADP	_	7 Fairy	case
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 than	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Fairy	det
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 a	punct
7	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fairer	appos
8	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 desire	det
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 desire	amod
11	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 felt	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 enter	mark
13	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 felt	advcl
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 Castle	det
15	Castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 enter	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hung	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 hung	cc
18	besides	besides	ADP	_	20 hung	mark
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 hung	aux:pass
20	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 seemed	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 little	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hung	obl:unmarked
23	above	above	ADP	_	25 ground	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ground	det
25	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hung	obl
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 hung	advmod
27	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 felt	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	31 doors	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 doors	cop
30	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	31 doors	cc:preconj
31	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 seemed	xcomp
32	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	33 windows	cc
33	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 doors	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	feel	past	Fairer	a strong desire		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme
2	enter	to-infinitive	Fairer not said here	this Castle		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme castle=Destination
3	hang	gerund · passive		a little	the ground; there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: above ground=Location
4	seem	past				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	is a	to-infinitive		doors nor windows		tree rules

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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