The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 110
Nothing but the ivory box with its diamond motto was left to show him that the last few weeks had not been a dream.
Who acts: last few weeks · What happens: leave, show, have, not be · To what, where: Nothing, midst, dream
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last few weeks), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 left | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 box | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 4 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 box | compound |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 motto | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 motto | nmod:poss |
| 8 | diamond | diamond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 motto | amod |
| 9 | motto | motto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 box | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | aux:pass |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 show | mark |
| 13 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 left | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 show | iobj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 had | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 weeks | det |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 weeks | amod |
| 18 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 weeks | amod |
| 19 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 show | advcl |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 dream | advmod |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 dream | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 dream | det |
| 24 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | Nothing | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | midst | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | have | past | the last few weeks | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is a | participle | a dream | tree rules |
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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