The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 50
On the other side of the lake high mountains rose up, and dark woods stretched along the banks; over all hung a thick mist, and deep silence reigned everywhere.
Who acts: high mountains · What happens: rise up, stretch, hang, reign · To what, where: other side, dark woods, thick mist, deep silence
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 (high mountains), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 side | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 side | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 side | amod |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rose | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lake | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lake | det |
| 7 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 side | nmod |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mountains | amod |
| 9 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rose | nsubj |
| 10 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 rose | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stretched | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stretched | cc |
| 14 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woods | amod |
| 15 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 rose | conj |
| 17 | along | along | ADP | _ | 19 banks | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 banks | det |
| 19 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stretched | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 hung | punct |
| 21 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 23 hung | mark |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 hung | advmod |
| 23 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rose | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 mist | det |
| 25 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 mist | amod |
| 26 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hung | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 reigned | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 reigned | cc |
| 29 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 silence | amod |
| 30 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 reigned | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 hung | conj |
| 32 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 31 reigned | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | high mountains | the other side of the lake | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | ||||
| 2 | stretch | participle · passive | dark woods | along the banks | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hang | past | high mountains not said here | a thick mist | all property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mist=Patient | |||
| 4 | reign | participle | high mountains not said here | deep silence | everywhere 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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