The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 70
On the lid of each (which the king vainly tried to open) was an inscription in diamonds.
Who acts: king, lid · What happens: try, open, be · To what, where: diamonds
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 (king, lid), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 lid | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lid | det |
| 3 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 inscription | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 inscription | det |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 inscription | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 inscription | nsubj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 inscription | nsubj |
| 10 | vainly | vainly | ADV | _ | 11 tried | advmod |
| 11 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 king | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 open | mark |
| 13 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tried | xcomp |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 open | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 inscription | cop |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 inscription | det |
| 17 | inscription | inscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lid | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 diamonds | case |
| 19 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 inscription | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the king not said here | vainly property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | open not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the lid | diamonds | of each inscription | 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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