The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 30
You know the beautiful grotto and the bright silver walls whose lustre never fades, the sparkling diamonds which never grow dim, the music which never ceases its low, soft murmur through the sweet evening twilight.
Who acts: You, lustre, music · What happens: know, not fade, not grow, not cease, murmur · To what, where: beautiful grotto, sparkling diamonds, low soft murmur, sweet evening twilight
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, lustre, music), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grotto | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grotto | amod |
| 5 | grotto | grotto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 walls | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 walls | det |
| 8 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 walls | amod |
| 9 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walls | compound |
| 10 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grotto | conj |
| 11 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 12 lustre | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lustre | lustre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fades | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 fades | advmod |
| 14 | fades | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 walls | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 diamonds | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 diamonds | det |
| 17 | sparkling | sparkling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 diamonds | amod |
| 18 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grotto | conj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 grow | obj |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 grow | advmod |
| 21 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 diamonds | acl:relcl |
| 22 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 grow | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 music | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 music | det |
| 25 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grotto | appos |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 ceases | nsubj |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 ceases | advmod |
| 28 | ceases | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 music | acl:relcl |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 murmur | nmod:poss |
| 30 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 murmur | amod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 low | punct |
| 32 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 murmur | amod |
| 33 | murmur | murmur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ceases | obj |
| 34 | through | through | ADP | _ | 38 twilight | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 twilight | det |
| 36 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 twilight | amod |
| 37 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 twilight | compound |
| 38 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ceases | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | the beautiful grotto and the bright silver walls and the sparkling diamonds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer grotto=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not fade | present | lustre | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not grow | present | the sparkling diamonds | dim property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not cease | present | the music | lustre's low soft murmur | the sweet evening twilight | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality murmur=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | murmur | lustre | nom murmur «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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