The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 39
In the forecourt was a royal seat of polished jasper, and in the middle of the platform was a basin of purest water that flashed like a mirror.
Who acts: purest water · What happens: be, polish, flash · To what, where: royal seat, forecourt, basin, middle
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (purest water), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 forecourt | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 forecourt | det |
| 3 | forecourt | forecourt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seat | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seat | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 seat | det |
| 6 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seat | amod |
| 7 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 jasper | case |
| 9 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 jasper | amod |
| 10 | jasper | jasper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seat | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 basin | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 basin | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 middle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 middle | det |
| 15 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 basin | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 platform | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 platform | det |
| 18 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 middle | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 basin | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 basin | det |
| 21 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seat | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | purest | pure | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 water | amod |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 basin | nmod |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 flashed | nsubj |
| 26 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 water | acl:relcl |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 mirror | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 mirror | det |
| 29 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flashed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a royal seat and a basin | the forecourt | of polished jasper | tree rules | |||
| 2 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | a basin | the middle of the platform | of purest water | tree rules | |||
| 4 | flash | past | purest water | like a mirror | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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