The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 84

As soon as she reached the top a new difficulty presented itself, for all the other side, and indeed the whole valley, was one polished mirror, in which thousands and thousands of people were admiring their reflections.

Who acts: sister, new difficulty, whole valley, thousands · What happens: reach, present, polish, be, admire · To what, where: top, difficulty, one polished mirror, reflections

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, new difficulty, whole valley, thousands), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 reached	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 reached	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reached	nsubj
5	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 valley	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 top	det
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 difficulty	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 difficulty	amod
10	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 presented	nsubj
11	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	conj
12	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 presented	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 side	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	18 side	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 side	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 side	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 side	amod
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 presented	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 valley	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 valley	cc
21	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	24 valley	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 valley	det
23	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 valley	amod
24	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mirror	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 valley	punct
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 mirror	cop
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 mirror	nummod
28	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 mirror	amod
29	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 admiring	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 admiring	obl
33	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 admiring	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 thousands	cc
35	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 thousands	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 people	case
37	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 thousands	nmod
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 admiring	aux
39	admiring	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 mirror	conj
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 reflections	nmod:poss
41	reflections	reflection	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 admiring	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 mirror	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	sister	the top		soon property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme
2	present	past	a new difficulty	difficulty		for all other side	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Theme for side=Recipient
3	polish	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	the whole valley	one polished mirror			tree rules
5	admire	past · progressive	thousands of people and thousands	thousands's reflections	one polished mirror		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reflection=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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