More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 120

Diamond was for all the world as wisht a looking creature as Facey--nothing but a bag of bones, all the flesh gone, and half a rick of wood was gone too; but the fireplace was piled up three feet high with white wood-ashes.

Who acts: Diamond, rick · What happens: be, look, pile up, rick · To what, where: fireplace, wood

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Diamond, rick), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 world	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 world	cop
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 world	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 world	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 wisht	case
8	wisht	wisht	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 world	nmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 creature	det
10	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 creature	amod
11	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 world	nmod
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 Facey	case
13	Facey	Facey	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 creature	nmod
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 nothing	punct
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 creature	conj
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 bag	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bag	det
18	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 creature	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 bones	case
20	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bag	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gone	punct
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 gone	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 gone	det
24	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gone	nsubj
25	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 creature	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 gone	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 gone	cc
28	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	30 rick	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 rick	det
30	rick	rick	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gone	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 wood	case
32	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rick	nmod
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 gone	cop
34	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 gone	parataxis
35	too	too	ADV	_	34 gone	advmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 piled	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 piled	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 fireplace	det
39	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 piled	nsubj:pass
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 piled	aux:pass
41	piled	pile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 gone	parataxis
42	up	up	ADP	_	41 piled	compound:prt
43	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 feet	nummod
44	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 high	obl:unmarked
45	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 piled	conj
46	with	with	ADP	_	50 ashes	case
47	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 ashes	amod
48	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 ashes	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 wood	punct
50	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 high	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 world	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Diamond		for all world; as wisht; a looking creature as Facey but a bag of bones nmod	tree rules
2	look	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past	half rick of wood		gone property	tree rules
4	pile up	past · passive		the fireplace		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination
5	rick			wood		nom rick «state 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: «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.

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