The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 23
In the midst of this room stood a couch, draped with curtains of all the colours of the rainbow, and suspended by golden cords so that it swayed with the Castle in a manner which rocked its occupant delightfully to sleep.
Who acts: room, manner · What happens: stand, drape, suspend, sway, rock, sleep · To what, where: couch, midst, manner, occupant
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 (room, manner), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 midst | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 midst | det |
| 3 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 midst | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 couch | det |
| 9 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 draped | punct |
| 11 | draped | drape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stood | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 curtains | case |
| 13 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 draped | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 colours | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 colours | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 colours | det |
| 17 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 curtains | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 rainbow | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rainbow | det |
| 20 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 colours | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 suspended | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 suspended | cc |
| 23 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stood | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 cords | case |
| 25 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cords | amod |
| 26 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 suspended | obl |
| 27 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 30 swayed | mark |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 so | fixed |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 swayed | nsubj |
| 30 | swayed | sway | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 suspended | advcl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 Castle | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Castle | det |
| 33 | Castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 swayed | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 manner | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 manner | det |
| 36 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 swayed | obl |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 rocked | nsubj |
| 38 | rocked | rock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 manner | acl:relcl |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 occupant | nmod:poss |
| 40 | occupant | occupant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rocked | obj |
| 41 | delightfully | delightfully | ADV | _ | 38 rocked | advmod |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 sleep | mark |
| 43 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 delightfully | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a couch | the midst of this room | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent couch=Theme in midst=Destination | ||||
| 2 | drape | participle | with curtains of all colours of the rainbow | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with curtain=Theme | |||||
| 3 | suspend | participle | by golden cords | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by cord=Location | |||||
| 4 | sway | past | room | a manner | with the Castle | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location | |||
| 5 | rock | past | a manner | room's occupant | delightfully property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location occupant=Theme | |||
| 6 | sleep | to-infinitive | a manner 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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