The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 8
Then he held up high the flower that laughs, and the door slowly swung back, displaying a deep cavern, which was as bright as the day from the shining of the golden bowl and the diamond lance.
Who acts: idiot, flower, door, deep cavern · What happens: hold up, laugh, swing back, display, be, shine · To what, where: deep cavern, shining, golden bowl
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idiot, flower, door, deep cavern), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 held | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 held | compound:prt |
| 5 | high | high | ADP | _ | 7 flower | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flower | det |
| 7 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 laughs | nsubj |
| 9 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 flower | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 swung | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 swung | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 swung | nsubj |
| 14 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 15 swung | advmod |
| 15 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | conj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 swung | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 displaying | punct |
| 18 | displaying | display | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 swung | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cavern | det |
| 20 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cavern | amod |
| 21 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 displaying | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bright | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 bright | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 bright | cop |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 bright | advmod |
| 26 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cavern | parataxis |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 day | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 day | det |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bright | obl |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 shining | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 shining | det |
| 32 | shining | shining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 displaying | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 bowl | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 bowl | det |
| 35 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 bowl | amod |
| 36 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shining | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 lance | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 lance | det |
| 39 | diamond | diamond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 lance | amod |
| 40 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bowl | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold up | past | idiot | then | high the flower | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | laugh | present | the flower | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | swing back | past | the door | slowly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | display | gerund | the door not said here | a deep cavern | the shining of the golden bowl and the diamond lance | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cavern=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | past | a deep cavern | day | bright property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | shine | the golden bowl and the diamond lance | nom shining «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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