The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 40
About him was a robe of purple, and an apple of gold was at each corner, and every one of the apples was of the value of a hundred cows.
Who acts: youth, apple, one · What happens: be · To what, where: corner
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, apple, one), 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 5 robe | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 robe | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 robe | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 robe | det |
| 5 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 purple | case |
| 7 | purple | purple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 robe | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 corner | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 corner | cc |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 apple | det |
| 11 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 corner | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 apple | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 corner | cop |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 corner | case |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 corner | det |
| 17 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 robe | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 value | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 value | cc |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 value | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 apples | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 apples | det |
| 24 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 value | cop |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 value | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 value | det |
| 28 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 robe | parataxis |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 cows | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 hundred | det |
| 31 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 cows | nummod |
| 32 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 value | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 robe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | youth | about a robe and each corner; of purple | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a apple of gold | each corner | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | every one of the apples | of the value; of hundred cows | 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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