The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 26

The glittering grotto described to him by the maidens had completely vanished, and so had the marble bath, the bower of jasmine; instead, all was a tangle of flowers, as it had been of old.

Who acts: glittering grotto, bath · What happens: glitter, describe, vanish, have, be · To what, where: glittering grotto, mistake, marble bath

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 (glittering grotto, bath), 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	3 grotto	det
2	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 grotto	amod
3	grotto	grotto	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vanished	nsubj
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grotto	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 described	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 maidens	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maidens	det
9	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 described	obl
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 vanished	aux
11	completely	completely	ADV	_	12 vanished	advmod
12	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 had	advmod
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 vanished	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bath	det
18	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bath	compound
19	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bower	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bower	det
22	bower	bower	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bath	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 jasmine	case
24	jasmine	jasmine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bower	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 tangle	punct
26	instead	instead	ADV	_	31 tangle	case
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 instead	punct
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 tangle	det
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tangle	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 tangle	det
31	tangle	tangle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vanished	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 flowers	case
33	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 tangle	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 old	punct
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 old	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 old	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 old	aux
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 old	cop
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 old	case
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 vanished	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 vanished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	glitter	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	participle		the glittering grotto not said here	mistake	by the maidens	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to he=be'
3	vanish	past · perfect	the glittering grotto			completely property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	the glittering grotto not said here	the marble bath			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Patient
5	is	past				instead all tangle; of flowers	tree rules
6	is	past · perfect	bath			old property	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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