The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 76
However, once within, daylight was hardly missed, so brilliant were the multitudes of tapers that were burning on the walls.
Who acts: tapers · What happens: miss, be, burn · To what, where: daylight, brilliant multitudes, walls
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 (tapers), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 12 brilliant | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 within | advmod |
| 4 | within | within | ADP | _ | 9 missed | mark |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 within | punct |
| 6 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 missed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 missed | aux:pass |
| 8 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 9 missed | advmod |
| 9 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 brilliant | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 missed | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 brilliant | advmod |
| 12 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 multitudes | amod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 multitudes | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 multitudes | det |
| 15 | multitudes | multitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tapers | case |
| 17 | tapers | taper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 multitudes | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 burning | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 burning | aux |
| 20 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 tapers | acl:relcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 walls | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 walls | det |
| 23 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 burning | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 multitudes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past · passive | daylight | hardly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the brilliant multitudes | of tapers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | burn | past · progressive | tapers | the walls | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wall=Location |
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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