The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 17

They ran through all the rooms, closets, and wardrobes, which were all so fine and rich that they seemed to surpass one another.

Who acts: neighbors, wardrobes · What happens: run, be, seem, surpass · To what, where: rooms, one

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbors, wardrobes), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	6 rooms	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 rooms	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rooms	det
6	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ran	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 closets	punct
8	closets	closet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rooms	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fine	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fine	cc
11	wardrobes	wardrobe	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fine	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fine	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 fine	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fine	cop
15	all	all	ADV	_	17 fine	advmod
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 fine	advmod
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ran	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rich	cc
19	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fine	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 seemed	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seemed	nsubj
22	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 rich	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 surpass	mark
24	surpass	surpass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 seemed	xcomp
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 surpass	obj
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 one	fixed
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	neighbors = neighbor		all rooms and closets		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through room=Trajectory
2	is	past	wardrobes			all, fine property	tree rules
3	be		wardrobes not said here				tree rules
4	seem	past	neighbors = neighbor				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	surpass	to-infinitive	neighbors = neighbor not said here	one			vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot one=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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