The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 49
A splendid castle surrounded by a huge lake was the abode of the Fairy, and the only approach to it was over a bridge of clouds.
Who acts: splendid castle, only approach · What happens: surround, be · To what, where: splendid castle, abode, bridge
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: who acts (splendid castle, only approach), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 castle | det |
| 2 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 castle | amod |
| 3 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 abode | nsubj |
| 4 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 castle | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 lake | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lake | det |
| 7 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lake | amod |
| 8 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 abode | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 abode | det |
| 11 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Fairy | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Fairy | det |
| 14 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 abode | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bridge | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bridge | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 approach | det |
| 18 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 approach | amod |
| 19 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bridge | nsubj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 approach | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 bridge | cop |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 bridge | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bridge | det |
| 25 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 abode | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 clouds | case |
| 27 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 bridge | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 abode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | participle | a splendid castle not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | a splendid castle | the abode and a bridge | of the Fairy | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | the only approach to castle | a bridge | of clouds | 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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