The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 98
A little way off stood a splendid palace, the walls of which were of transparent emeralds.
Who acts: little way, walls · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: splendid palace
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (little way, walls), 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 | 3 way | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 way | amod |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | off | off | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 7 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 palace | amod |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 walls | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 walls | det |
| 11 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 emeralds | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 emeralds | cop |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 emeralds | case |
| 16 | transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 emeralds | amod |
| 17 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 walls | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a little way | a splendid palace | the walls obl; off property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | the walls | of transparent emeralds | tree rules |
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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