The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 62
In the middle of the field stood a magnificent castle, built out of porphyry, with a roof of gold and with glittering battlements.
Who acts: magnificent castle · What happens: stand, build out · To what, where: magnificent castle, middle, porphyry
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 (magnificent castle), 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 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 field | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 field | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 9 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 castle | amod |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 built | punct |
| 12 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 castle | acl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 porphyry | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 porphyry | case |
| 15 | porphyry | porphyry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 built | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 roof | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 roof | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 roof | det |
| 19 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 gold | case |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 roof | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 battlements | cc |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 battlements | case |
| 24 | glittering | glittering | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 battlements | amod |
| 25 | battlements | battlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gold | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a magnificent castle | the middle of the field | with a roof of gold and glittering battlements | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme in middle=Destination | |||
| 2 | build out | participle | a magnificent castle not said here | porphyry | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset porphyry=Product |
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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