The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 102
The beautiful room was a big, rough cave, with water oozing over the edges of the stones and through the clay; and the lady, and the lord, and the child weazened, poverty-bitten creatures--nothing but skin and bone--and the rich dresses were old rags.
Who acts: beautiful room, water, child, rich dresses · What happens: be, ooze, weazen, bite, creature · To what, where: big rough cave, edges, child, old rags
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful room, water, child, rich dresses), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 room | det |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 room | amod |
| 3 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cave | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cave | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cave | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cave | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 big | punct |
| 8 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cave | amod |
| 9 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 water | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cave | conj |
| 13 | oozing | ooze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 water | acl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 edges | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 edges | det |
| 16 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 oozing | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 stones | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stones | det |
| 19 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 edges | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 clay | cc |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 clay | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 clay | det |
| 23 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stones | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 lady | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lady | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lady | det |
| 27 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cave | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 lord | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 lord | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lord | det |
| 31 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lady | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 creatures | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 creatures | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 child | det |
| 35 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 creatures | nsubj |
| 36 | weazened | weazen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 child | acl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 creatures | punct |
| 38 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 bitten | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 poverty | punct |
| 40 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 creatures | amod |
| 41 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 lady | conj |
| 42 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 43 nothing | punct |
| 43 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 27 lady | conj |
| 44 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 skin | cc |
| 45 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 nothing | conj |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 bone | cc |
| 47 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 nothing | conj |
| 48 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 55 rags | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 rags | cc |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 dresses | det |
| 51 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 dresses | amod |
| 52 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 rags | nsubj |
| 53 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 rags | cop |
| 54 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 rags | amod |
| 55 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 lady | conj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the beautiful room | a big rough cave and water and the lady and the lord and bitten creatures and old rags | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ooze | gerund | water not said here | the edges of the stones and the clay | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over edge=Location | ||||
| 3 | weazen | participle | the child not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bite | participle | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | creature | the child | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | is a | past | the rich dresses | old rags | 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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