--- title: The gaping Mountain yawned from side to side, A hideous Cavern, dark… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The gaping Mountain yawned from side to side, A hideous Cavern, darksome, deep, and wide; In skipt th' exulting Demon, piping loud, With passive joy succeeded by the Crowd. Who acts: gaping Mountain, th exulting Demon. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gaping Mountain, th exulting Demon), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:35:17 # text = The gaping Mountain yawned from side to side, A hideous Cavern, darksome, deep, and wide; In skipt th' exulting Demon, piping loud, With passive joy succeeded by the Crowd. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 gaping gape VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 Mountain Mountain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 yawned yawn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 hideous hideous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 Cavern Cavern PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 darksome darksome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 21 In in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 skipt skipt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 th th NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 exulting exult VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 amod _ _ 26 Demon demon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 piping pipe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 29 loud loud ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 With with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 passive passive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 34 succeeded succeed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 35 by by ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gape** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **yawn** | past | the gaping Mountain | | side | | | to side | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to side=Recipient | | 3 | **exult** | gerund | | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **pipe** | gerund | th exulting Demon *not said here* | | | | | loud *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **succeed** | participle | | passive joy *not said here* | | | | by the Crowd | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/18/) - ↑ back to [XLIV. the Pied Piper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/)