The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 149
When he went up into the town all the streets were gleaming with light, and the wedding of the Princess was just about to begin.
Who acts: Irishman, streets, wedding · What happens: go up, gleam, be, wed · To what, where: town, Princess
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irishman, streets, wedding), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 streets | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 streets | det |
| 10 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gleaming | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gleaming | aux |
| 12 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 light | case |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gleaming | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 begin | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 begin | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wedding | det |
| 18 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 begin | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Princess | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Princess | det |
| 21 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 wedding | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 begin | cop |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 about | advmod |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 26 begin | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 begin | mark |
| 26 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | Irishman | the town | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | gleam | past · progressive | all streets | with light | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the wedding of the Princess | about, begin property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wed | the Princess | nom wedding «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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