--- title: One day when the youth was strolling about in the palace garden with… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: One day when the youth was strolling about in the palace garden with the Princess, his wife, he looked down over the edge of the Glass Mountain and saw to his astonishment a great number of people gathered there. Who acts: youth, great number. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/60/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Glass Mountain(16), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/) / 60 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 60 One day when the youth was strolling about in the palace garden with the Princess, his wife, he looked down over the edge of the Glass Mountain and saw to his astonishment a great number of people gathered there. **Who acts:** youth, great number · **What happens:** stroll, look down, see, gather, astonish · **To what, where:** astonishment This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, great number), 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:pg640:22:60 # text = One day when the youth was strolling about in the palace garden with the Princess, his wife, he looked down over the edge of the Glass Mountain and saw to his astonishment a great number of people gathered there. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 strolling stroll VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 down down ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 over over ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 Glass Glass PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 Mountain Mountain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 astonishment astonishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 40 gathered gather VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 41 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stroll** | past · progressive | the youth | | | | | about the palace garden; with the Princess | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about garden=Trajectory | | 2 | **look down** | past | youth | | | | day | over the edge of the Glass Mountain; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over edge=Theme | | 3 | **see** | past | youth *not said here* | | | | | to youth's astonishment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **gather** | past | a great number of people | youth's astonishment *not said here* | | there | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent astonishment=Theme | | 5 | **astonish** | | youth | | | | | | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=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:** «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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/61/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/)