The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 82
Thus he grew so rich that very soon he had his silver pipes covered with gold, so that they glistened in the light of the sun or the fire.
Who acts: Tiidu, pipes · What happens: grow, cover, glisten, light · To what, where: light, sun
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: who acts (Tiidu, pipes), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 grew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 rich | advmod |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 covered | mark |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 soon | advmod |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 had | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 covered | aux |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pipes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pipes | compound |
| 13 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 rich | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 covered | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 glistened | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 glistened | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 glistened | nsubj |
| 21 | glistened | glisten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 light | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 light | det |
| 24 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 glistened | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sun | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sun | det |
| 27 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 light | nmod |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 fire | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 fire | det |
| 30 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 light | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Tiidu | rich, thus property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cover | past · perfect | Tiidu not said here | with gold | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glisten | past | pipes = pipe | the light of the sun or the fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location | ||||
| 4 | light | the sun | nom light «phenomenon 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: «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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