The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 14
To the right and left of the waterfall opened out a wonderful grotto, its walls and arches glittering with many-coloured rock-crystals, while in every niche were spread out strange fruits and sweetmeats, the very sight of which made the princess long to taste them.
Who acts: right, walls, sight · What happens: leave, open out, glitter, spread out, make, taste · To what, where: wonderful grotto, right, strange fruits, niche, princess, fruits
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (right, walls, sight), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 right | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 right | det |
| 3 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opened | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 left | cc |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | acl:relcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 waterfall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 waterfall | det |
| 8 | waterfall | waterfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 opened | compound:prt |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 grotto | det |
| 12 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grotto | amod |
| 13 | grotto | grotto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opened | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 walls | punct |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 walls | nmod:poss |
| 16 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grotto | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 arches | cc |
| 18 | arches | arch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 walls | conj |
| 19 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 walls | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 crystals | case |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 crystals | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 many | punct |
| 23 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 crystals | amod |
| 24 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 crystals | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 rock | punct |
| 26 | crystals | crystal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 glittering | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 spread | punct |
| 28 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 33 spread | mark |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 niche | case |
| 30 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 niche | det |
| 31 | niche | niche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 spread | obl |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 spread | aux:pass |
| 33 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 opened | advcl |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 spread | compound:prt |
| 35 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 fruits | amod |
| 36 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 spread | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 sweetmeats | cc |
| 38 | sweetmeats | sweetmeat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 fruits | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 sight | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 sight | det |
| 41 | very | very | ADV | _ | 42 sight | advmod |
| 42 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fruits | appos |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 which | case |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 made | nsubj |
| 45 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 sight | acl:relcl |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 princess | det |
| 47 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 made | obj |
| 48 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 45 made | advmod |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 taste | mark |
| 50 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 made | advcl |
| 51 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 taste | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the right not said here | of the waterfall | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of waterfall=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | open out | past | a wonderful grotto and waterfall's walls and arches | the right | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent grotto=Patient to right=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | glitter | gerund | waterfall's walls and arches not said here | with many coloured rock crystals | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with crystal=Theme | ||||
| 4 | spread out | past · passive | strange fruits and sweetmeats | every niche | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: fruit=Theme in niche=Destination | ||||
| 5 | make | past | the sight | the princess | long property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset princess=Product | |||
| 6 | taste | to-infinitive | the sight not said here | fruits = fruit | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme they=Attribute |
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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