The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 46
But in vain did the two eldest mount guard in the church with their guns; as soon as the bird appeared high above their heads, sleep overpowered them, and they only awoke to hear the windows crashing in.
Who acts: bird, sleep, BROTHERS, windows · What happens: do, appear, overpower, awake, hear, crash in · To what, where: two eldest mount guard, vain, heads, BROTHERS, 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: who acts (bird, sleep, BROTHERS, windows), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 vain | case |
| 3 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 guard | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 guard | nummod |
| 7 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 guard | amod |
| 8 | mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 guard | compound |
| 9 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 church | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 church | det |
| 12 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 guns | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 guns | nmod:poss |
| 15 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 church | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 appeared | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 soon | advmod |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 appeared | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 appeared | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bird | det |
| 21 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 appeared | nsubj |
| 22 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 23 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 appeared | advmod |
| 24 | above | above | ADP | _ | 26 heads | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 heads | nmod:poss |
| 26 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 appeared | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 overpowered | punct |
| 28 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 overpowered | nsubj |
| 29 | overpowered | overpower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 appeared | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 overpowered | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 awoke | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 awoke | cc |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 awoke | nsubj |
| 34 | only | only | ADV | _ | 35 awoke | advmod |
| 35 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 overpowered | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 hear | mark |
| 37 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 awoke | xcomp |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 windows | det |
| 39 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 hear | obj |
| 40 | crashing | crash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 windows | acl |
| 41 | in | in | ADV | _ | 40 crashing | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the two eldest mount guard | vain | in the church with BROTHERS's guns | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | appear | past | the bird | BROTHERS's heads | high, soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above head=Location | |||
| 3 | overpower | past | sleep | BROTHERS = brother | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | awake | past | BROTHERS = brother | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hear | to-infinitive | BROTHERS = brother not said here | the windows | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer window=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | crash in | gerund | the windows not said here | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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