The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 44
The food was cooked in silver saucepans, the bread baked in a silver oven, while the dishes and their covers were all of gold.
What happens: cook, bake · To what, where: food, bread
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 food | det |
| 2 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cooked | aux:pass |
| 4 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 saucepans | case |
| 6 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saucepans | compound |
| 7 | saucepans | saucepan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cooked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bread | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bread | det |
| 10 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saucepans | appos |
| 11 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 bread | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 oven | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 oven | det |
| 14 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 oven | compound |
| 15 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 baked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 all | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 all | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dishes | det |
| 19 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 all | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 covers | cc |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 covers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | covers | cover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dishes | conj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 all | cop |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 cooked | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 gold | case |
| 26 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 all | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cooked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | past · passive | the food | in silver saucepans | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in saucepan=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | bake | participle | the bread not said here | in a silver oven | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in oven=Instrument |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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