The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 103

He was very proud of it, and never tired of admiring the whiteness of his straw mats, and the pretty papered walls, which in warm weather always slid back, so that the smell of the trees and flowers might come in.

Who acts: middle, whiteness, papered walls, trees · What happens: be, admire, mat, paper, slide back, come in · To what, where: whiteness, warm weather

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (middle, whiteness, papered walls, trees), 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	4 proud	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 proud	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 proud	advmod
4	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 proud	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tired	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tired	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 tired	advmod
10	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 proud	parataxis
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 admiring	mark
12	admiring	admire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 tired	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 whiteness	det
14	whiteness	whiteness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 admiring	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 straw	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 straw	nmod:poss
17	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mats	obl
18	mats	mat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 whiteness	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 come	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 come	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 walls	det
22	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	23 papered	advmod
23	papered	paper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 walls	amod
24	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 come	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 slid	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 slid	nsubj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 weather	case
28	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 weather	amod
29	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 slid	obl
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 slid	advmod
31	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 come	advcl
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 slid	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 come	punct
34	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	44 come	mark
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 so	fixed
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 smell	det
37	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 come	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 trees	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 trees	det
40	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 smell	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 flowers	cc
42	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 trees	conj
43	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 come	aux
44	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 proud	conj
45	in	in	ADV	_	44 come	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 proud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	middle			of house; proud property	tree rules
2	admire	gerund	middle not said here	the whiteness			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whiteness=Stimulus
3	mat	present	the whiteness not said here			of middle's straw	tree rules
4	paper	participle				pretty property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	slide back	past			warm weather	always property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in weather=Trajectory
6	come in	might	the papered walls				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	smell		the trees and flowers				nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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