The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 142
And lo and behold! the following morning, when the King awoke and looked out of his window he beheld to his amazement that the palace, bridge, church, and trees had all vanished, and there was nothing in their place but a bare, miserable-looking hut.
Who acts: King, nothing · What happens: follow, awake, look out, behold, vanish, be · To what, where: window, trees
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, nothing), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 lo | cc |
| 2 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 13 awoke | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 behold | cc |
| 4 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 2 lo | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 lo | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 morning | det |
| 7 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 morning | amod |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lo | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 awoke | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 awoke | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 awoke | nsubj |
| 13 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 awoke | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 window | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 window | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 window | nmod:poss |
| 19 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beheld | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beheld | nsubj |
| 21 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 looked | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 amazement | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 amazement | nmod:poss |
| 24 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beheld | obl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 palace | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 palace | det |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 amazement | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bridge | punct |
| 29 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 palace | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 church | punct |
| 31 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 palace | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 vanished | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 vanished | cc |
| 34 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 vanished | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 vanished | aux |
| 36 | all | all | ADV | _ | 37 vanished | advmod |
| 37 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 beheld | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 was | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 was | cc |
| 40 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 41 was | expl |
| 41 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 vanished | parataxis |
| 42 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 41 was | nsubj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 place | case |
| 44 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 place | nmod:poss |
| 45 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 nothing | nmod |
| 46 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 53 hut | cc |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 hut | det |
| 48 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 hut | amod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 bare | punct |
| 50 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 looking | compound |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 miserable | punct |
| 52 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 53 hut | amod |
| 53 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 nothing | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | awake | past | the King | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lo=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look out | past | the King not said here | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | behold | past | King | King's window | to King's amazement the palace and bridge and church | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | vanish | past · perfect · passive | trees | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 8 | 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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