The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 229
Under the most splendid green trees besides a blue lake stood a glittering white-marble castle.
What happens: stand, glitter · To what, where: glittering marble castle, splendid green trees
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 6 trees | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trees | det |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 splendid | advmod |
| 4 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trees | amod |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trees | amod |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stood | obl |
| 7 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 10 lake | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lake | det |
| 9 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lake | amod |
| 10 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 13 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 castle | amod |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 marble | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 white | punct |
| 16 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 castle | amod |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a glittering marble castle | the splendid green trees | besides a blue lake | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme under tree=Destination | |||
| 2 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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