The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 52
The youth ran to look at it, and saw that a huge abyss had opened below the stone.
Who acts: youth · What happens: run, look, see, open · To what, where: huge abyss, stone · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (youth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 look | mark |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ran | advcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 look | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 opened | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 abyss | det |
| 13 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 abyss | amod |
| 14 | abyss | abyss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 opened | aux |
| 16 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 saw | ccomp |
| 17 | below | below | ADP | _ | 19 stone | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stone | det |
| 19 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 opened | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the youth | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | the youth not said here | at youth | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the youth not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | open | past · perfect · passive | a huge abyss | the stone | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme below stone=Location |
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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