The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 127
Next morning when the King awoke, and looked out of his window, to his amazement he beheld a magnificent castle, just opposite his own palace, and joined to it a bridge of pure crystal.
Who acts: King · What happens: awake, look out, behold, join, amaze · To what, where: window, magnificent castle, bridge, palace
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 awoke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 awoke | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 awoke | nsubj |
| 6 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 looked | cc |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 awoke | parataxis |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 window | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 window | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 window | nmod:poss |
| 13 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beheld | punct |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 amazement | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 amazement | nmod:poss |
| 17 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beheld | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 beheld | nsubj |
| 19 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looked | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 castle | det |
| 21 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 castle | amod |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beheld | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 palace | punct |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 palace | advmod |
| 25 | opposite | opposite | ADP | _ | 28 palace | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 palace | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 palace | amod |
| 28 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beheld | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 joined | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 joined | cc |
| 31 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 awoke | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 joined | obl |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 bridge | det |
| 35 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 joined | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 crystal | case |
| 37 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 crystal | amod |
| 38 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bridge | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the King | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look out | past | King's window | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | behold | past | King | a magnificent castle | to King's amazement; opposite King's own palace | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | join | participle | a bridge of pure crystal | palace | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient to it=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | amaze | King | nom amazement «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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