The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 88
The youth looked down and beheld a long thick serpent beginning to crawl up the tree.
Who acts: youth · What happens: look down, behold, begin, crawl up · To what, where: long thick serpent, tree
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 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 looked | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 beheld | cc |
| 6 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 serpent | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 serpent | amod |
| 9 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 serpent | amod |
| 10 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beheld | obj |
| 11 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 beheld | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 crawl | mark |
| 13 | crawl | crawl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 beginning | xcomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 crawl | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crawl | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | past | the youth | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | behold | past | the youth not said here | a long thick serpent | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer serpent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | begin | gerund | the youth not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | crawl up | to-infinitive | the youth not said here | the tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme |
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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