The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 34
Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, inestimable stones, unvalued jewels-- all scattered in the bottom of the sea!
Who acts: Wedges, jewels · What happens: unvalu, scatter · To what, where: jewels, all, bottom
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wedges, jewels), 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 | Wedges | wedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 unvalued | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 gold | case |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wedges | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 anchors | punct |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 anchors | amod |
| 6 | anchors | anchor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Wedges | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heaps | punct |
| 8 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Wedges | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pearl | case |
| 10 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heaps | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stones | punct |
| 12 | inestimable | inestimable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stones | amod |
| 13 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Wedges | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wedges | punct |
| 15 | unvalued | unvalu | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 unvalued | obj |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 scattered | punct |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 jewels | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 bottom | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bottom | det |
| 22 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 scattered | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sea | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sea | det |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bottom | nmod |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 unvalued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unvalu | past | Wedges of gold and great anchors and heaps of pearl and inestimable stones | jewels | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scatter | participle · passive | jewels not said here | all | the bottom of the sea | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in bottom=Destination |
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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