The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 18

This door was of gold covered with carbuncles, and it was the pure red light which shone from them that had shown him the way through the forest.

Who acts: door, pure red light · What happens: be, cover, shine, show · To what, where: gold, pure red light, two, forest

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, pure red light), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gold	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gold	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 gold	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 gold	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 carbuncles	case
8	carbuncles	carbuncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 covered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 light	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 light	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 light	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 light	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 light	det
14	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 light	amod
15	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 light	amod
16	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gold	conj
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 shone	nsubj
18	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 light	acl:relcl
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 shone	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 shown	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 shown	aux
23	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 light	acl:relcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 shown	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 way	det
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shown	obl:unmarked
27	through	through	ADP	_	29 forest	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 forest	det
29	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shown	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	this door				of gold and the pure red light	tree rules
2	cover	participle		gold and the pure red light not said here			with carbuncles	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with carbuncle=Theme
3	is a	past	door	the pure red light				tree rules
4	shine	past	the pure red light				from carbuncles = carbuncle	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	show	past · perfect	the pure red light		two	the forest	the way obl:unmarked	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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