--- title: Every night it flew round the Glass Mountain keeping a careful look-… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Every night it flew round the Glass Mountain keeping a careful look-out, and no sooner had the moon emerged from the clouds than the bird rose up from the apple-tree, and circling round in the air, caught sight of the sleeping youth. Who acts: tree, moon, clouds. 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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 (tree, moon, clouds), 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:pg640:22:42 # text = Every night it flew round the Glass Mountain keeping a careful look-out, and no sooner had the moon emerged from the clouds than the bird rose up from the apple-tree, and circling round in the air, caught sight of the sleeping youth. 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 round round ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Glass Glass PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Mountain Mountain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 11 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 12 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 out out NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ _ 19 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 emerged emerge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 clouds cloud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 than than ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 29 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 circling circle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 39 round round ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 amod _ _ 45 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 49 amod _ _ 49 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | past | tree | | | the Glass Mountain | night | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round mountain=Trajectory | | 2 | **keep** | gerund | tree *not said here* | a careful look out | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent out=Theme | | 3 | **have** | past | tree *not said here* | | | | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **emerge** | past | the moon | | | the clouds | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from cloud=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **rise up** | past | the clouds *not said here* | | | the apple tree | | than the bird | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **circle** | gerund | tree *not said here* | caught sight of the sleeping youth | | the air | | round *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **catch** | participle | | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **sleep** | gerund | | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **sight** | | | the sleeping youth | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/43/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/)