The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 27
Very funny the palace must have looked each morning, with the dabs of different colour on the white marble as the princes were climbing up the walls.
Who acts: princes · What happens: look, climb up, dab · To what, where: funny palace, walls, different colour, white marble
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 funny | advmod |
| 2 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 palace | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 palace | det |
| 4 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 looked | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 looked | aux |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 morning | det |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dabs | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 dabs | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dabs | det |
| 13 | dabs | dab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 looked | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 colour | case |
| 15 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 colour | amod |
| 16 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dabs | nmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 marble | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 marble | det |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 marble | amod |
| 20 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dabs | nmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 climbing | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 princes | det |
| 23 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 climbing | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 climbing | aux |
| 25 | climbing | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 marble | acl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 climbing | compound:prt |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 walls | det |
| 28 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 climbing | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | must · perfect · passive | the funny palace | morning | with the dabs of different colour on the white marble | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | |||
| 2 | climb up | past · progressive | the princes | the walls | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wall=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dab | different colour | the white marble | nom dab «act transitive»: of=patient on=place |
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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