The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 20

Some of the white, which appeared to be silver, were so large and heavy that my comrade and I could hardly lift them.

Who acts: Some, comrade · What happens: appear, be, lift · To what, where: poles

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, comrade), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 large	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 white	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 white	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Some	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 appeared	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 appeared	nsubj
7	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 white	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	10 silver	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 silver	cop
10	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 appeared	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 appeared	punct
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 large	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 large	advmod
14	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 heavy	cc
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 large	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 lift	mark
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 comrade	nmod:poss
19	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lift	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 I	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 comrade	conj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 lift	aux
23	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	24 lift	advmod
24	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 heavy	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lift	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	appear	past				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive			silver property	tree rules
3	is	past	Some		large property	tree rules
4	be		Some not said here			tree rules
5	lift	could	my comrade	poles = pole	hardly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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