The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 44
There was once upon a time a witch, who in the shape of a hawk used every night to break the windows of a certain village church.
What happens: be, use, break · To what, where: hawk, windows
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: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 witch | det |
| 8 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shape | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 shape | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 shape | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shape | det |
| 13 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 witch | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hawk | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hawk | det |
| 16 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shape | nmod |
| 17 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hawk | acl |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 night | det |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 used | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 break | mark |
| 21 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 used | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 windows | det |
| 23 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 break | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 church | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 church | det |
| 26 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 church | amod |
| 27 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 church | compound |
| 28 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 windows | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | time | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | use | participle | a hawk not said here | night | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | break | to-infinitive | the windows of a certain village church | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Patient |
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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