The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 67
His astonishment was great when he awoke to find the glass axe whole and unbroken at his side, and all the trees of the wood lying felled around him!
Who acts: astonishment, Prince · What happens: be, awake, find, fell, astonish · To what, where: glass axe, trees
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 (astonishment, Prince), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 2 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 great | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 great | cop |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 awoke | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 awoke | nsubj |
| 7 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 great | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 awoke | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 axe | det |
| 11 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 axe | compound |
| 12 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 axe | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 unbroken | cc |
| 15 | unbroken | unbroken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 whole | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 side | nmod:poss |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whole | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 felled | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 felled | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 trees | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trees | det |
| 23 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 felled | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 wood | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wood | det |
| 26 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trees | nmod |
| 27 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 felled | aux:pass |
| 28 | felled | fell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 great | conj |
| 29 | around | around | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 felled | obl |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Prince's astonishment | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | awake | past | Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | the glass axe | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Topic | ||||
| 4 | fell | gerund · passive | all trees of the wood | around Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | astonish | Prince | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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