The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 68
Even the grains of dust in the streets were of gold and silver.
Who acts: grains · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grains), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 grains | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grains | det |
| 3 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gold | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 dust | case |
| 5 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grains | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 streets | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 streets | det |
| 8 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dust | nmod |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gold | cop |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 silver | cc |
| 13 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gold | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the grains of dust in the streets | of gold and silver | 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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