The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 83
Full of hope he hurried across the bridge, and recognised at once the spot where the castle was to stand, for spades, hammers, axes, and every other building implement lay scattered on the ground ready for the workman’s hand, but of gold, silver, and precious stones there was not a sign.
Who acts: Prince, castle · What happens: hurry, recognise, be, scatter, not be · To what, where: hope, bridge, spot, other building implement, ground, sign
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 (Prince, castle), 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 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 hope | case |
| 3 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Full | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hurried | nsubj |
| 5 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hope | acl:relcl |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 bridge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bridge | det |
| 8 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 recognised | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 recognised | cc |
| 11 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Full | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 spot | case |
| 13 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 15 spot | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spot | det |
| 15 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 recognised | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 stand | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stand | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stand | cop |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 stand | mark |
| 21 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 spot | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 spades | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 spades | case |
| 24 | spades | spade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stand | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hammers | punct |
| 26 | hammers | hammer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 spades | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 axes | punct |
| 28 | axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 spades | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 scattered | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 scattered | cc |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 implement | det |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 implement | amod |
| 33 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 implement | compound |
| 34 | implement | implement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 scattered | aux:pass |
| 36 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Full | conj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 ground | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 ground | det |
| 39 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 scattered | obl |
| 40 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 ground | amod |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 hand | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 workman | det |
| 43 | workman | workman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hand | nmod:poss |
| 44 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 43 workman | case |
| 45 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ready | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 sign | punct |
| 47 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 60 sign | cc |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 gold | case |
| 49 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 sign | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 silver | punct |
| 51 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 gold | conj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 stones | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 stones | cc |
| 54 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 stones | amod |
| 55 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 gold | conj |
| 56 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 57 was | expl |
| 57 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 60 sign | cop |
| 58 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 60 sign | advmod |
| 59 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 60 sign | det |
| 60 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Full | conj |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | Prince | hope not said here | the bridge | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hope=Theme across bridge=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | recognise | participle | the spot | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the castle | for spades and hammers and axes; stand property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | scatter | past · passive | every other building implement | the ground | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on ground=Destination | ||||
| 5 | not is a | past | a sign | of gold and silver and precious stones | 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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