The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 58
In the middle of the meadow stood a huge stone castle, with an iron gate leading to it, which was wide open.
Who acts: iron gate · What happens: stand, lead, be · To what, where: huge stone castle, middle, 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 (iron gate), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 meadow | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 meadow | det |
| 6 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 9 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 castle | amod |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 castle | compound |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gate | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 gate | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 gate | det |
| 15 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gate | compound |
| 16 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | parataxis |
| 17 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 gate | acl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 leading | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 open | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 open | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 open | cop |
| 23 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 open | advmod |
| 24 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gate | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a huge stone castle | the middle of the meadow | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme in middle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lead | gerund | a iron gate not said here | meadow | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a iron gate | open property | tree rules |
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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