The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 94
The place was so splendid that the eyes of the ages have never seen its like, and there, in an open square, he found a tent of crimson satin set up, and beneath it two jewelled drums with jewelled sticks.
Who acts: place, citadel, two · What happens: be, not see, find, set up, jewell · To what, where: eyes, open square, tent, crimson satin, drums
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, citadel, two), 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 | 2 place | det |
| 2 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 splendid | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 splendid | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 splendid | advmod |
| 5 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 seen | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eyes | det |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ages | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ages | det |
| 11 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eyes | nmod |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 seen | advmod |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 splendid | advcl |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 like | nmod:poss |
| 16 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 14 seen | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 there | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 there | cc |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 seen | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 square | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 square | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 square | det |
| 23 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 square | amod |
| 24 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 found | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 found | nsubj |
| 27 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 splendid | parataxis |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 tent | det |
| 29 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 found | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 satin | case |
| 31 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 satin | compound |
| 32 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tent | nmod |
| 33 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 satin | acl |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 set | compound:prt |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 jewelled | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 jewelled | cc |
| 37 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 39 two | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 two | nsubj |
| 39 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 jewelled | nsubj |
| 40 | jewelled | jewell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 found | conj |
| 41 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 jewelled | obj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 sticks | case |
| 43 | jewelled | jewell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 sticks | amod |
| 44 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 jewelled | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 splendid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the place | splendid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not see | present · perfect · passive | the eyes of the ages | a open square | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | find | past | citadel | a tent of crimson satin | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Topic | ||||
| 4 | set up | participle | crimson satin not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | jewell | past | two | drums | with jewelled sticks | tree rules | |||
| 6 | jewell | participle | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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