The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 22
She entered a magnificent room which appeared to occupy the entire Castle, and which was lighted by gold and jewelled stars in the ceiling.
Who acts: Princess, magnificent room, gold stars · What happens: enter, appear, occupy, light · To what, where: magnificent room, entire 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 (Princess, magnificent room, gold stars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:1663): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 room | det |
| 4 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 room | amod |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 room | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 occupy | mark |
| 9 | occupy | occupy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 appeared | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Castle | det |
| 11 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Castle | amod |
| 12 | Castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 occupy | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lighted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lighted | cc |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lighted | aux:pass |
| 17 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 appeared | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 stars | case |
| 19 | gold | gold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stars | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 jewelled | cc |
| 21 | jewelled | jewelled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gold | conj |
| 22 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lighted | obl:agent |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 ceiling | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ceiling | det |
| 25 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stars | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Princess | a magnificent room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | a magnificent room | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | occupy | to-infinitive | a magnificent room not said here | the entire Castle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus castle=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | light | past · passive | gold stars in the ceiling | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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