The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 53

Before the sun was fairly up in the heavens the princess, too full of excitement to stay in the palace, was walking about the streets so covered with precious stones that you had to shade your eyes before you could look at her.

Who acts: you, precious stones · What happens: stay, walk, cover, have, shade, look · To what, where: palace, precious stones, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, precious stones), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	6 up	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 up	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 up	cop
5	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	6 up	advmod
6	up	up	ADP	_	11 princess	case
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 heavens	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heavens	det
9	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 up	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 walking	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 full	punct
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 full	advmod
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 princess	amod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 excitement	case
16	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 full	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 stay	mark
18	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 full	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 palace	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 palace	det
21	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stay	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 princess	punct
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 walking	aux
24	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
25	about	about	ADP	_	27 streets	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 streets	det
27	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 walking	obl
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 covered	advmod
29	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 walking	advcl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 stones	case
31	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 stones	amod
32	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 covered	obl
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 had	obj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 stones	acl:relcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 shade	mark
37	shade	shade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 had	xcomp
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 eyes	nmod:poss
39	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 shade	obj
40	before	before	SCONJ	_	43 look	mark
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 look	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 look	aux
43	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 shade	advcl
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 her	case
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 look	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 walking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stay	to-infinitive			the palace		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location
2	walk	past · progressive				up the princess; about the streets	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up princess=Trajectory
3	cover	participle				with precious stones	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=Theme
4	have	past	you	precious stones			tree rules
5	shade	to-infinitive	precious stones not said here	your eyes			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Beneficiary
6	look	could	you			at princess	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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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