--- title: Once upon a time there was a Glass Mountain at the top of which stoo… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Once upon a time there was a Glass Mountain at the top of which stood a castle made of pure gold, and in front of the castle there grew an apple-tree on which there were golden apples. Who acts: Glass Mountain, top, golden apples. 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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 (Glass Mountain, top, golden apples), 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:pg640:22:3 # text = Once upon a time there was a Glass Mountain at the top of which stood a castle made of pure gold, and in front of the castle there grew an apple-tree on which there were golden apples. 1 Once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 6 advmod _ _ 2 upon upon ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 6 expl _ _ 6 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Glass Glass PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Mountain Mountain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 30 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 obl _ _ 37 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 38 expl _ _ 38 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl _ _ 39 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a Glass Mountain at the top | | | there | | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stand** | past | the top | a castle | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus | | 3 | **make** | participle | | a castle *not said here* | | | | of pure gold | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **grow** | past | a Glass Mountain at the top *not said here* | a apple tree | | front of the castle | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | | 5 | **be** | past | golden apples | | | a apple tree; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Location | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/4/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/)