The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 7
In front of the castle stood some little trees surrounding a tiny mirror which looked like a lake.
Who acts: little trees, tiny mirror · What happens: stand, surround, look · To what, where: little trees, front, tiny mirror
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little trees, tiny mirror), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 front | case |
| 2 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 castle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 front | nmod |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 trees | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trees | amod |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stood | obj |
| 10 | surrounding | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 trees | acl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mirror | det |
| 12 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mirror | amod |
| 13 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 surrounding | obj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 mirror | acl:relcl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 lake | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lake | det |
| 18 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | some little trees | front of the castle | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in front=Destination | ||||
| 2 | surround | gerund | some little trees not said here | a tiny mirror | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mirror=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | a tiny mirror | like a lake | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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