The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 5
Nowhere could pipes be found as fine as his, or played in so masterly a manner.
What happens: find, play · To what, where: pipes
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 | Nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 found | advmod |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | aux |
| 3 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 found | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 found | aux:pass |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 fine | advmod |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 found | xcomp |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 played | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 played | nmod:poss |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 played | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 played | cc |
| 12 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fine | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 masterly | case |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 masterly | advmod |
| 15 | masterly | masterly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 played | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 manner | det |
| 17 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 masterly | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | could · passive | pipes | fine, nowhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | play | participle | masterly property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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