The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 84
It is in vain that I have hidden them under the earth and locked them into the castle.
Who acts: land, I · What happens: be, hide, lock · To what, where: children, earth, castle
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 (land, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 vain | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 vain | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 vain | case |
| 4 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 hidden | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 hidden | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hidden | aux |
| 8 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 vain | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hidden | obj |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 earth | det |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hidden | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 locked | cc |
| 14 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hidden | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 locked | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 castle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 locked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | land | vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | present · perfect | I | children = child | the earth | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient under earth=Location | |||
| 3 | lock | past | I not said here | children = child | the castle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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