The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 100

“Well, he shone nearly as brightly as the coal-heaps that thou art always lying raking among, dirty black creature that thou art!” said the brothers.

Who acts: knight, coal heaps, brothers · What happens: shine, lie, rake, say · To what, where: dirty black creature · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, coal heaps, brothers), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 shone	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 shone	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shone	nsubj
5	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 said	advcl
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	8 brightly	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 brightly	advmod
8	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	5 shone	advmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	13 heaps	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 heaps	det
11	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heaps	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 coal	punct
13	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 said	nsubj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 lying	nsubj
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 lying	nsubj
16	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 lying	aux
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 lying	advmod
18	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 heaps	acl:relcl
19	raking	rake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 lying	advcl
20	among	among	ADP	_	19 raking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 creature	punct
22	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 creature	amod
23	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 creature	amod
24	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lying	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 art	obj
26	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 art	nsubj
27	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 creature	acl:relcl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 creature	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 lying	punct
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 brothers	det
32	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 said	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shine in a quote	past	knight		brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	lie in a quote	present · progressive	the coal heaps	dirty black creature	always property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rake in a quote	gerund	the coal heaps not said here			vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: express	past	the brothers			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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