The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 101
When they got to the bottom Hans saw a large number of rooms lit by many lamps and full of beautiful things.
Who acts: pounds, Hans · What happens: get, see, lit · To what, where: large number, rooms
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pounds, Hans), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bottom | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bottom | det |
| 6 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 number | det |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 number | amod |
| 11 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 rooms | case |
| 13 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 number | nmod |
| 14 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 rooms | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 lamps | case |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lamps | amod |
| 17 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lit | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 full | cc |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lamps | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 things | case |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 things | amod |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 full | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | pounds = pound | to the bottom result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bottom=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Hans | a large number of rooms | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lit | participle | rooms not said here | by many lamps | 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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