The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 35
'I want a palace of ice that can be warmed with fires and filled with the rarest singing-birds!'
Who acts: I, fires · What happens: want, warm, fill · To what, where: palace, ice
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fires), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 want | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ice | case |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 palace | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 warmed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 warmed | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 warmed | aux:pass |
| 11 | warmed | warm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ice | acl:relcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 fires | case |
| 13 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 warmed | obl:agent |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 filled | cc |
| 15 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 warmed | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 birds | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 birds | det |
| 18 | rarest | rare | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 birds | amod |
| 19 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 birds | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 singing | punct |
| 21 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 filled | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | a palace of ice | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot palace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | warm | can · passive | fires | ice | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle | fires not said here | with the rarest singing birds | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with bird=Instrument |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/35/