The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 8
A large side table was set out with all sorts of gold plate, so finely wrought that the workmanship was much more valuable than the weight of the gold.
Who acts: workmanship · What happens: set out, be, sort · To what, where: large side table, gold plate
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (workmanship), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 table | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 table | amod |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 table | compound |
| 4 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | aux:pass |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 sorts | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 sorts | det |
| 10 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 set | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 plate | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plate | compound |
| 13 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sorts | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wrought | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 wrought | advmod |
| 16 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 17 wrought | advmod |
| 17 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 set | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 valuable | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 workmanship | det |
| 20 | workmanship | workmanship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 valuable | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 valuable | cop |
| 22 | much | much | ADV | _ | 23 more | advmod |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 valuable | advmod |
| 24 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wrought | advcl |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 weight | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 weight | det |
| 27 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 valuable | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 gold | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 gold | det |
| 30 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 weight | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past · passive | a large side table | with all sorts of gold plate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the workmanship | than the weight of the gold; valuable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sort | gold plate | 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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