The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 5
It was getting dark, and hundreds of coloured hanging lamps were lit to turn night into day.
Who acts: palace · What happens: get, lit, turn · To what, where: hundreds
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 (palace), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 getting | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 getting | aux |
| 3 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 getting | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lit | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lit | cc |
| 7 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lit | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 lamps | case |
| 9 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lamps | amod |
| 10 | hanging | hanging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lamps | compound |
| 11 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hundreds | nmod |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lit | aux:pass |
| 13 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 getting | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 turn | mark |
| 15 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lit | xcomp |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turn | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turn | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · progressive | palace | dark property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | lit | past · passive | hundreds of coloured hanging lamps | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | turn | to-infinitive | day; night | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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