The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 32
At the same moment the walls of the room expanded and opened out, revealing a golden throne covered with jewels.
Who acts: walls · What happens: expand, open out, reveal, cover · To what, where: golden throne
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 (walls), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 expanded | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 walls | det |
| 6 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 expanded | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walls | nmod |
| 10 | expanded | expand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 opened | cc |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 expanded | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 opened | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 revealing | punct |
| 15 | revealing | reveal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 expanded | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 throne | det |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 throne | amod |
| 18 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 revealing | obj |
| 19 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 throne | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 jewels | case |
| 21 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 covered | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 expanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expand | participle | the walls of the room | moment | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | open out | participle | the walls of the room not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reveal | gerund | the walls of the room not said here | a golden throne | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Topic | ||||
| 4 | cover | participle | a golden throne not said here | with jewels | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jewel=Theme |
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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