The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 97

In places the air was darkened by showers of lobster-patties, white puddings, sausages, tarts, and all sorts of sweetmeats, or with pieces of gold and silver, diamonds and pearls.

Who acts: showers · What happens: darken, sort · To what, where: air, places, sweetmeats

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (showers), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 places	case
2	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 darkened	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 darkened	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 darkened	aux:pass
6	darkened	darken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 showers	case
8	showers	shower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 darkened	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 patties	case
10	lobster	lobster	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 patties	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 lobster	punct
12	patties	patty	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 showers	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 puddings	punct
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 puddings	amod
15	puddings	pudding	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 patties	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sausages	punct
17	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 patties	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tarts	punct
19	tarts	tart	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 patties	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sorts	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sorts	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 sorts	det
23	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 darkened	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 sweetmeats	case
25	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sorts	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pieces	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 pieces	cc
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 pieces	case
29	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 darkened	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 gold	case
31	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pieces	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 silver	cc
33	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gold	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 diamonds	punct
35	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pieces	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 pearls	cc
37	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pieces	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 darkened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	darken	past · passive	showers of lobster patties and white puddings and sausages and tarts	the air		places		with pieces of gold and silver and diamonds and pearls; all sorts of sweetmeats obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent subject=Patient with piece=Instrument
2	sort			sweetmeats					nom sort «cognition 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 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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