The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 87
She uttered a piercing shriek so that the mountains re-echoed with the sound of it, and the terrified pair had hardly dared to look out from their hiding-place when the enraged woman, with her dress and hair flying in the wind, hurried over the bridge of clouds.
Who acts: Fairy, mountains, hair · What happens: utter, re-echo, dare, look out, enrage, fly · To what, where: piercing shriek, terrified pair, hiding place, wind, dress, 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 (Fairy, mountains, hair), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 uttered | nsubj |
| 2 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shriek | det |
| 4 | piercing | piercing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shriek | compound |
| 5 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 uttered | obj |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 10 re-echoed | mark |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 so | fixed |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountains | det |
| 9 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 re-echoed | nsubj |
| 10 | re-echoed | re-echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 uttered | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 sound | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sound | det |
| 13 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 re-echoed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sound | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dared | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dared | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pair | det |
| 19 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pair | amod |
| 20 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dared | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dared | aux |
| 22 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 23 dared | advmod |
| 23 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 uttered | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 look | mark |
| 25 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 dared | xcomp |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 look | compound:prt |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 place | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 place | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 place | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 hiding | punct |
| 31 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 look | obl |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 woman | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 woman | det |
| 34 | enraged | enrage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 woman | amod |
| 35 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dared | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 dress | punct |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 dress | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 dress | nmod:poss |
| 39 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dared | conj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 hair | cc |
| 41 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dress | conj |
| 42 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 hair | acl |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 wind | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 wind | det |
| 45 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 flying | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 hurried | punct |
| 47 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 dress | acl |
| 48 | over | over | ADP | _ | 50 bridge | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 bridge | det |
| 50 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 hurried | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 clouds | case |
| 52 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 bridge | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past | Fairy | a piercing shriek | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shriek=Topic | ||||
| 2 | re-echo | past | the mountains | with the sound of sound | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dare | past · perfect · passive | the terrified pair | the enraged woman obl; hardly property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | look out | to-infinitive | mountains's hiding place | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | enrage | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | fly | gerund | hair not said here | the wind | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location | ||||
| 7 | hurry | participle | Fairy's dress and hair not said here | the bridge of clouds | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bridge=Trajectory |
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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