The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 28
There was no room, however small, she did not lead him into, and each room was full of curious things he had never seen before.
Who acts: room, voice · What happens: be, not lead, not see · To what, where: voice, curious things
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, voice), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 room | det |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 small | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 small | advmod |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 room | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lead | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lead | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lead | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 lead | advmod |
| 12 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 small | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lead | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 lead | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 full | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 full | cc |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 room | det |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 full | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 full | cop |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 was | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 things | case |
| 22 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 full | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 seen | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 seen | aux |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 seen | advmod |
| 27 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 things | acl:relcl |
| 28 | before | before | ADV | _ | 27 seen | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no room | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not lead | past · do-support | room | voice | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | each room | of curious things; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not see | past · perfect | voice | curious things not said here | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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