The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 63

Five of them were white, but the sixth, which was larger than the others, was of an ugly grey colour.

Who acts: Five, sixth · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Five, sixth), 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	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 white	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Five	nmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 white	cop
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 colour	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 colour	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sixth	det
9	sixth	sixth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 colour	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 larger	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 larger	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 larger	cop
13	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 sixth	amod
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 others	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 others	det
16	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 larger	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sixth	punct
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 colour	cop
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 colour	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 colour	det
21	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 colour	amod
22	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 colour	amod
23	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 white	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 white	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Five of burdocks	white property	tree rules
2	is	past	the sixth	than the others; large property	tree rules
3	is	past	the sixth	of a ugly grey colour	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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