The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 31
Before her stood the big earthenware water jars, one of which contained oil, the other a liquid shining like gold.
Who acts: Lizina, big earthenware water, other liquid · What happens: stand, jar, contain, shine · To what, where: one, oil
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lizina, big earthenware water, other liquid), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 water | amod |
| 6 | earthenware | earthenware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 water | compound |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jars | nsubj |
| 8 | jars | jar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 stood | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 contained | nsubj |
| 13 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 contained | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 liquid | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 other | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 liquid | amod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 liquid | det |
| 19 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 oil | appos |
| 20 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 liquid | acl |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shining | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Lizina | one | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | jar | present | the big earthenware water | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | contain | past | oil | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot oil=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shine | gerund | a other liquid not said here | like gold | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP 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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