The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 52

Oh! what beautiful stones he laid before her; what lovely rubies, and what rare pearls!

Who acts: stone, beautiful stones · What happens: lay, ruby · To what, where: beautiful stones

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 (stone, beautiful stones), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stones	amod
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 what	nsubj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laid	nsubj
7	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stones	acl:relcl
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laid	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 rubies	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 rubies	nsubj
12	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rubies	amod
13	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stones	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 what	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 what	parataxis
17	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pearls	amod
18	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 what	nsubj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	stone	beautiful stones and lovely rubies not said here			before princess		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme before she=Destination
2	ruby		beautiful stones and lovely rubies						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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