The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 143
And he built his great white pillar far, far up into the clouds, as high as the nearest stars; but the other stars were higher still.
Who acts: Simon, other stars · What happens: build, be · To what, where: great white pillar, clouds
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simon, other stars), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 built | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 built | nsubj |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pillar | nmod:poss |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pillar | amod |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pillar | amod |
| 7 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obj |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 built | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 clouds | punct |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 up | advmod |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 clouds | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 clouds | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 clouds | det |
| 14 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 built | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 high | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 high | advmod |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 clouds | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 stars | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stars | det |
| 20 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 stars | amod |
| 21 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 high | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 higher | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 higher | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stars | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 stars | amod |
| 26 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 higher | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 higher | cop |
| 28 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 built | parataxis |
| 29 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 higher | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | Simon | Simon's great white pillar | the clouds | far property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent pillar=Material into cloud=Product | ||
| 2 | is | past | the other stars | still | high property | 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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