--- title: After a time her road led through a wood, full of soft airs and swee… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After a time her road led through a wood, full of soft airs and sweet odours, and before she had gone a hundred yards she saw a wonderful silver Castle suspended by strong silver chains to four of the largest trees. Who acts: road, Fairy. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Gla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/16/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/) / 16 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 16 After a time her road led through a wood, full of soft airs and sweet odours, and before she had gone a hundred yards she saw a wonderful silver Castle suspended by strong silver chains to four of the largest trees. **Who acts:** road, Fairy · **What happens:** lead, go, see, suspend · **To what, where:** wood, hundred yards, wonderful silver Castle This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (road, Fairy), 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:pg640:24:16 # text = After a time her road led through a wood, full of soft airs and sweet odours, and before she had gone a hundred yards she saw a wonderful silver Castle suspended by strong silver chains to four of the largest trees. 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 through through ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 airs air NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 odours odour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 before before SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 yards yard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 33 suspended suspend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 chains chain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 43 amod _ _ 43 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead** | past | Fairy's road | | | a wood | time | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through wood=Destination | | 2 | **go** | past · perfect | Fairy | hundred yards | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yard=Theme | | 3 | **see** | past | Fairy | a wonderful silver Castle | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus | | 4 | **suspend** | participle | | a wonderful silver Castle *not said here* | | | | by strong silver chains; to four of the largest trees | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chain=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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/17/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/)