The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 41
Sprats and herrings in powers Of silvery showers All number out-numbered; And great ling so lengthy Was there in such plenty The shore was encumber’d.
Who acts: shore · What happens: number, be · To what, where: number, such plenty
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shore), 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 | Sprats | sprat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 herrings | cc |
| 3 | herrings | herring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sprats | conj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 powers | case |
| 5 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sprats | nmod |
| 6 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 8 showers | case |
| 7 | silvery | silvery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 showers | amod |
| 8 | showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 powers | nmod |
| 9 | All | all | ADV | _ | 10 number | advmod |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 showers | appos |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 numbered | mark |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 out | punct |
| 13 | numbered | number | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 number | acl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 ling | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ling | cc |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ling | amod |
| 17 | ling | ling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sprats | conj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 lengthy | advmod |
| 19 | lengthy | lengthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 there | advmod |
| 20 | Was | Be | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 there | nsubj |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 ling | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 plenty | case |
| 23 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 plenty | amod |
| 24 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 there | obl |
| 25 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shore | det |
| 26 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 encumber | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 encumber | cop |
| 28 | encumber | encumber | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 plenty | acl:relcl |
| 29 | ’d | 'd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 encumber | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sprats | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | number | participle | number not said here | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the shore | such plenty not said here | encumber 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 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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