The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 105
The tiny palace was soon ready, and a fresh bed made of wild thyme, which smelt delicious.
Who acts: tiny palace, wild thyme · What happens: be, make, smelt · To what, where: fresh bed
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiny palace, wild thyme), 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 palace | det |
| 2 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 palace | amod |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | cop |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 ready | advmod |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bed | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bed | det |
| 10 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bed | amod |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ready | obl |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bed | acl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 thyme | case |
| 14 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thyme | amod |
| 15 | thyme | thyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 smelt | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 smelt | nsubj |
| 18 | smelt | smelt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 thyme | acl:relcl |
| 19 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 smelt | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the tiny palace | a fresh bed obl; ready, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a fresh bed not said here | of wild thyme | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | smelt | present | wild thyme | delicious property | 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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