The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 4
On the second morning the Scotsman saw from the top of his tree a great castle far away.
Who acts: Scotsman · What happens: see · To what, where: great castle, top
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 (Scotsman), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Scotsman | det |
| 6 | Scotsman | Scotsman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 top | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 top | det |
| 10 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tree | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 top | nmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 castle | amod |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 away | advmod |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 saw | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Scotsman | a great castle | the top of Irishman's tree | morning | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus |
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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