The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 73
So the youth went with her, and soon they reached a beautiful garden, where stood a splendid house, which glittered in the moonlight as if it was all built out of gold and silver.
Who acts: youth, birds, splendid house · What happens: go, reach, stand, glitter, build out · To what, where: beautiful garden, splendid house, moonlight, house, gold
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, birds, splendid house), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reached | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 reached | cc |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 reached | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 garden | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 garden | amod |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 stood | advmod |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 reached | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 19 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 house | amod |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 glittered | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 glittered | nsubj |
| 23 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 house | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 moonlight | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 moonlight | det |
| 26 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 glittered | obl |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 built | mark |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 built | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 built | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 built | aux:pass |
| 31 | all | all | ADV | _ | 32 built | advmod |
| 32 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 glittered | advcl |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 gold | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 gold | case |
| 35 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 built | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 silver | cc |
| 37 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 gold | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the youth | with maiden | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | birds = bird | a beautiful garden | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent garden=Theme | |||
| 3 | stand | past | birds = bird not said here | a splendid house | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | glitter | past | a splendid house | the moonlight | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonlight=Location | ||||
| 5 | build out | past · passive | house | gold and silver | all property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary gold=Product |
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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