The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 121

And so when the poor silly youth entered the room, he discovered that the iron walls were red hot.

Who acts: poor silly youth, King, iron walls · What happens: enter, discover, be · To what, where: room

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor silly youth, King, iron walls), 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	_	13 discovered	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	13 discovered	advmod
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 entered	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 youth	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 youth	amod
6	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 youth	amod
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 entered	nsubj
8	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 discovered	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 entered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 entered	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 discovered	nsubj
13	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 hot	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 walls	det
16	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walls	compound
17	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hot	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hot	cop
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hot	amod
20	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 discovered	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enter	past	the poor silly youth	the room		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
2	discover	past	King			vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the iron walls		hot property	tree rules

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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