The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 73
On it was written in diamond letters: “Jewels for the Bride,” and when they opened it, which they did as soon as it was found, there seemed to be no end to the pretty things it contained.
Who acts: jewels, set · What happens: write, open, do, find, seem, be · To what, where: set, diamond letters, end, pretty things
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jewels, set), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 written | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 written | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 written | aux:pass |
| 4 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 letters | case |
| 6 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 letters | compound |
| 7 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 written | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Jewels | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Jewels | punct |
| 10 | Jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 letters | appos |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Bride | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Bride | det |
| 13 | Bride | Bride | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Jewels | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Jewels | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 written | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 seemed | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 opened | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 opened | nsubj |
| 19 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 seemed | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 opened | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 did | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 did | obj |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 did | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 opened | conj |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 soon | advmod |
| 26 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 did | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 found | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 found | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 found | aux:pass |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 soon | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 opened | punct |
| 32 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 seemed | expl |
| 33 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 written | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 end | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 end | cop |
| 36 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 end | det |
| 37 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 seemed | xcomp |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 things | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 things | det |
| 40 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 things | amod |
| 41 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 end | nmod |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 contained | nsubj |
| 43 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 things | acl:relcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · passive | set | diamond letters | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in letter=Destination | ||||
| 2 | open | past | jewels = jewel | set | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | jewels = jewel | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | find | past · passive | set | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 5 | seem | past | there | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | no end | to the pretty things | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | contain | past | set | the pretty things not said here | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |
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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