The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 90
In a moment a glittering palace arose before the eyes of the Fairy which blinded her with its dazzling splendour, and with its many doors and passages prevented her for some time from finding her way out of it.
Who acts: glittering palace, Fairy, many doors · What happens: glitter, arise, blind, dazzle, prevent, find · To what, where: eyes, palace, way, shelter
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 (glittering palace, Fairy, many doors), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arose | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 5 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 palace | amod |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arose | nsubj |
| 7 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eyes | det |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 arose | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Fairy | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Fairy | det |
| 13 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eyes | nmod |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 blinded | nsubj |
| 15 | blinded | blind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Fairy | acl:relcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 blinded | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 splendour | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 splendour | nmod:poss |
| 19 | dazzling | dazzle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 splendour | amod |
| 20 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blinded | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 prevented | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 prevented | cc |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 doors | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 doors | nmod:poss |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 doors | amod |
| 26 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 prevented | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 passages | cc |
| 28 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 doors | conj |
| 29 | prevented | prevent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 arose | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 prevented | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 time | case |
| 32 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 time | det |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 prevented | obl |
| 34 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 35 finding | mark |
| 35 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 prevented | advcl |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 way | nmod:poss |
| 37 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 finding | obj |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 finding | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | arise | past | a glittering palace | the eyes of the Fairy | moment | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=Location | |||
| 3 | blind | past | the Fairy | palace | with shelter's dazzling splendour | tree rules | |||
| 4 | dazzle | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | prevent | past | shelter's many doors and passages | palace | time | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Theme | |||
| 6 | find | gerund | shelter's many doors and passages not said here | palace's way | shelter | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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