The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 14
At the end of the avenue, on the very spot where his hut had stood, a gorgeous palace appeared, ablaze with myriads of lights.
Who acts: hut, gorgeous palace · What happens: stand, appear · To what, where: end
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, 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 (hut, gorgeous palace), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 appeared | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 avenue | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 avenue | det |
| 6 | avenue | avenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spot | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 spot | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spot | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 spot | advmod |
| 11 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | conj |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 stood | advmod |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hut | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stood | aux |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 spot | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 palace | det |
| 19 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 palace | amod |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 appeared | nsubj |
| 21 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ablaze | punct |
| 23 | ablaze | ablaze | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 appeared | xcomp |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 myriads | case |
| 25 | myriads | myriad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ablaze | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 lights | case |
| 27 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 myriads | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · perfect | avenue's hut | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | appear | past | a gorgeous palace | at the end of the avenue and the spot | ablaze property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |
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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