The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 16
But once more her scheme was doomed to failure, for hardly had she gone a yard from the church than both it and the monk disappeared, and she found herself in a wood black as night, and full of wolves and bears and wild animals of all sorts and descriptions.
Who acts: church, monk · What happens: doom, go, disappear, find, scheme · To what, where: scheme, yard, church, wood
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (church, monk), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 doomed | cc |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 more | advmod |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 doomed | advmod |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 scheme | nmod:poss |
| 5 | scheme | scheme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 doomed | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 doomed | aux:pass |
| 7 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 failure | case |
| 9 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 doomed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gone | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 gone | mark |
| 12 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 15 gone | advmod |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gone | aux |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gone | nsubj |
| 15 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 doomed | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 yard | det |
| 17 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gone | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 church | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 church | det |
| 20 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gone | obl |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 22 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 23 it | cc:preconj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 church | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 disappeared | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 monk | det |
| 26 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 disappeared | nsubj |
| 27 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gone | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 found | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 found | cc |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 found | nsubj |
| 31 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 doomed | parataxis |
| 32 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 found | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 wood | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 wood | det |
| 35 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 found | obl |
| 36 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 wood | amod |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 night | case |
| 38 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 black | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 full | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 full | cc |
| 41 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 found | conj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 wolves | case |
| 43 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 full | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 bears | cc |
| 45 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 wolves | conj |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 animals | cc |
| 47 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 animals | amod |
| 48 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 wolves | conj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 sorts | case |
| 50 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 51 sorts | det |
| 51 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 animals | nmod |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 descriptions | cc |
| 53 | descriptions | description | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 sorts | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 doomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doom | past · passive | church's scheme | to failure | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | church | a yard | the church than scheme | hardly property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | disappear | past | the monk | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | past | church | church | a wood | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | |||
| 5 | scheme | church | nom scheme «cognition 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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