The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 80
He then pointed to the ivory boxes, which were placed on two little tables near the throne.
Who acts: One · What happens: point, place · To what, where: ivory boxes, two little tables
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 (One), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pointed | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 pointed | advmod |
| 3 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 boxes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boxes | det |
| 6 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boxes | compound |
| 7 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pointed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 placed | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 placed | aux:pass |
| 11 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 boxes | acl:relcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 tables | case |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 tables | nummod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tables | amod |
| 15 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 placed | obl |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 throne | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 throne | det |
| 18 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tables | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | past | One | the ivory boxes | then | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to box=Recipient | |||
| 2 | place | past · passive | the ivory boxes | two little tables near the throne | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on table=Destination |
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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