The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 36
'Shut your eyes, then,' said the stone; and he shut them, and when he opened them again there was the palace, more beautiful than anything he could have imagined, the fires throwing a soft pink glow over the ice.
Who acts: ice, fires · What happens: shut, say, open, be, imagine, throw · To what, where: eyes, stone, palace, soft pink glow, ice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ice, 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 | _ | 2 Shut | punct |
| 2 | Shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Shut | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 then | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Shut | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shut | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shut | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stone | det |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 shut | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shut | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shut | nsubj |
| 15 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shut | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 palace | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 was | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 opened | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 opened | nsubj |
| 21 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 was | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 opened | obj |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 opened | advmod |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 was | expl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 palace | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 palace | det |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shut | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 beautiful | punct |
| 29 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 beautiful | advmod |
| 30 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 palace | amod |
| 31 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 anything | case |
| 32 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 30 beautiful | obl |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 imagined | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 imagined | aux |
| 35 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 imagined | aux |
| 36 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 anything | acl:relcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 fires | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 fires | det |
| 39 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 palace | conj |
| 40 | throwing | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 fires | acl |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 glow | det |
| 42 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 glow | amod |
| 43 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 glow | amod |
| 44 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 throwing | obj |
| 45 | over | over | ADP | _ | 47 ice | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 ice | det |
| 47 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 throwing | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | infinitive | your eyes | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the stone | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shut | past | ice | eyes = eye | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | open | past | ice | eyes = eye | again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | |||
| 5 | is a | past | the palace and the fires | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | imagine | could · perfect | ice | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 7 | throw | gerund | the fires not said here | a soft pink glow | the ice | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glow=Theme over ice=Destination |
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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