The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 57
Here he found a lovely meadow full of green trees and exquisite flowers.
Who acts: abyss · What happens: find · To what, where: lovely meadow
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 (abyss), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 meadow | det |
| 5 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 meadow | amod |
| 6 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 meadow | amod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 trees | case |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 trees | amod |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 full | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 flowers | cc |
| 12 | exquisite | exquisite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flowers | amod |
| 13 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 trees | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | abyss | a lovely meadow | here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Topic |
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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