The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 22
Having got to the top, he looked round about him and saw that he was on an island, which was covered with forest, with apples growing, and altogether pleasant as far as the land was concerned.
Who acts: Prince, apples, land · What happens: have, get, look round, see, be, cover · To what, where: island · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, apples, land), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 looked | advcl |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 top | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 top | det |
| 5 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | round | round | ADV | _ | 8 looked | advmod |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 island | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 island | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 island | cop |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 island | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 island | det |
| 19 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 covered | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 covered | aux:pass |
| 23 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 island | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 forest | case |
| 25 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 covered | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 growing | punct |
| 27 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 29 growing | mark |
| 28 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 growing | nsubj |
| 29 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 covered | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 pleasant | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 pleasant | cc |
| 32 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 33 pleasant | advmod |
| 33 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 looked | conj |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | _ | 35 far | advmod |
| 35 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 pleasant | advmod |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 concerned | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 land | det |
| 38 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 concerned | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 concerned | cop |
| 40 | concerned | concerned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 far | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | participle | Prince not said here | to the top result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to top=Result | ||||
| 3 | look round | past | Prince | about Ingiborg; round property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Prince not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Prince | a island | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | cover | past · passive | a island | with forest | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with forest=Theme | ||||
| 7 | grow | gerund | apples | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | is | past | the land | concerned 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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