The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 41
Their way led through a stream whose banks were overgrown with thick brushwood.
What happens: lead, overgrow · To what, where: way, stream, banks
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 way | nmod:poss |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 stream | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stream | det |
| 6 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 8 banks | nmod:poss |
| 8 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 overgrown | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 overgrown | aux:pass |
| 10 | overgrown | overgrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stream | acl:relcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 brushwood | case |
| 12 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brushwood | amod |
| 13 | brushwood | brushwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overgrown | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | participle | woods's way | a stream | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through stream=Destination | ||||
| 2 | overgrow | past · passive | banks | with thick brushwood | 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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