The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 6
The brightest hung round the throne on which the queen sat, and which stood above four steps of pure gold inlaid with great amethysts.
Who acts: queen · What happens: hang, sit, stand, inlay, step · To what, where: throne, pure gold
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 (queen), 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 | 3 hung | det |
| 2 | brightest | bright | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 hung | amod |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 throne | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 throne | det |
| 6 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 sat | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 queen | det |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 throne | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stood | cc |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hung | conj |
| 16 | above | above | ADP | _ | 18 steps | case |
| 17 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 steps | nummod |
| 18 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stood | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 gold | case |
| 20 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gold | amod |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 steps | nmod |
| 22 | inlaid | inlay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 gold | acl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 amethysts | case |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 amethysts | amod |
| 25 | amethysts | amethyst | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 inlaid | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | participle | the throne | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round throne=Destination | |||||
| 2 | sit | past | the queen | the throne | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | above four steps of pure gold | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above step=Location | |||||
| 4 | inlay | participle | pure gold not said here | with great amethysts | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with amethyst=Theme | ||||
| 5 | step | pure gold | nom step «act 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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