The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 59
One by one their burdens were spread upon the ground, and no one had ever seen such lovely things.
Who acts: one, fairies · What happens: spread, see, burden · To what, where: One, such lovely things
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 (one, fairies), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 spread | obl |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 burdens | nmod:poss |
| 5 | burdens | burden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spread | aux:pass |
| 7 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spread | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seen | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seen | cc |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 seen | advmod |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 spread | advcl |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 things | amod |
| 19 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 things | amod |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 seen | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past · passive | One | by one; upon the ground | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme by one=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | no one | such lovely things | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | burden | fairies = fairy | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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