The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 21
Rings, crowns, girdles, necklaces--all made of wonderful stones; and they shone with such brilliance that not only the stepmother and her daughter but all the people round came running to see if the house was on fire.
Who acts: necklaces, such brilliance, house · What happens: make, shine, come, run, see, be · To what, where: fire
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (necklaces, such brilliance, house), 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 | Rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 crowns | punct |
| 3 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rings | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 girdles | punct |
| 5 | girdles | girdle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rings | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 necklaces | punct |
| 7 | necklaces | necklace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rings | conj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 stones | punct |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 stones | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 stones | amod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 stones | case |
| 12 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stones | amod |
| 13 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rings | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 shone | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shone | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 shone | nsubj |
| 17 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Rings | parataxis |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 brilliance | case |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 brilliance | amod |
| 20 | brilliance | brilliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shone | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 came | nsubj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 stepmother | advmod |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 stepmother | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stepmother | det |
| 25 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 came | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 daughter | cc |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 28 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stepmother | conj |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 people | cc |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 people | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 people | det |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stepmother | conj |
| 33 | round | round | ADV | _ | 34 came | advmod |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 brilliance | acl:relcl |
| 35 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 came | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 see | mark |
| 37 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 running | xcomp |
| 38 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 43 fire | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 house | det |
| 40 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 fire | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 fire | cop |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 fire | case |
| 43 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 see | ccomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | shine | past | necklaces = necklace | with such brilliance | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with brilliance=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | such brilliance | round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | gerund | such brilliance not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | such brilliance not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the house | fire | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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