The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 43

The orange trees were so tall and thick that, even at mid-day, the sun was never too hot, and at the end of the path was a glimmer of something so dazzling that the queen had to shade her eyes, and peep at it only between her fingers.

Who acts: orange trees, that, sun, queen · What happens: be, not be, dazzle, have, shade, peep · To what, where: glimmer, end, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (orange trees, that, sun, queen), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
2	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trees	amod
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tall	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tall	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 tall	advmod
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thick	cc
8	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tall	conj
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 thick	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mid-day	punct
11	even	even	ADV	_	13 mid-day	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 mid-day	case
13	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tall	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hot	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sun	det
16	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hot	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hot	cop
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 hot	advmod
19	too	too	ADV	_	20 hot	advmod
20	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tall	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 glimmer	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 glimmer	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 end	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 end	det
25	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 glimmer	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 path	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 path	det
28	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 end	nmod
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 glimmer	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 glimmer	det
31	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tall	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 something	case
33	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 glimmer	nmod
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 dazzling	advmod
35	dazzling	dazzle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 something	acl
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 had	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 queen	det
38	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 dazzling	ccomp
40	to	to	PART	_	41 shade	mark
41	shade	shade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 had	xcomp
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 eyes	nmod:poss
43	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 shade	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 peep	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 peep	cc
46	peep	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 shade	conj
47	at	at	ADP	_	48 it	case
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 peep	obl
49	only	only	ADV	_	52 fingers	advmod
50	between	between	ADP	_	52 fingers	case
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 fingers	nmod:poss
52	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 peep	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the orange trees			tall property	tree rules
2	be		that				tree rules
3	not is	past	the sun			hot property	tree rules
4	is a	past	the orange trees not said here	a glimmer	at the end of the path	of something	tree rules
5	dazzle	gerund					tree rules
6	have	past	the queen				tree rules
7	shade	to-infinitive	the queen not said here	queen's eyes			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Beneficiary
8	peep	infinitive	the queen not said here			between queen's fingers; at path	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme

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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