The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 55

Some carried baskets full of diamonds, others golden cups of wonderful workmanship, and amber, coral, and pearls, others, again, balanced upon their heads bales of the richest and most beautiful stuffs, while the rest brought fruit and flowers, and even birds.

Who acts: Some, rest · What happens: carry, balance, bring · To what, where: baskets, pearls, heads bales, fruit

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (Some, rest), 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	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	baskets	basket	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carried	obj
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 baskets	amod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 diamonds	case
6	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 others	punct
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 diamonds	conj
9	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cups	amod
10	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 diamonds	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 workmanship	case
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 workmanship	amod
13	workmanship	workmanship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cups	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 amber	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 amber	cc
16	amber	amber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 coral	punct
18	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 amber	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 balanced	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 balanced	cc
21	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 balanced	nsubj:pass
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 others	punct
23	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 pearls	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 again	punct
25	again	again	ADV	_	27 balanced	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 again	punct
27	balanced	balance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 carried	conj
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 bales	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 heads	nmod:poss
30	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bales	compound
31	bales	bale	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 balanced	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	38 stuffs	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 stuffs	det
34	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 stuffs	amod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 beautiful	cc
36	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	37 beautiful	advmod
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 richest	conj
38	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bales	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 brought	punct
40	while	while	SCONJ	_	43 brought	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 rest	det
42	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 brought	nsubj
43	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 balanced	conj
44	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 brought	obj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 flowers	cc
46	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 fruit	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 birds	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 birds	cc
49	even	even	ADV	_	50 birds	advmod
50	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 fruit	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	Some	baskets			amber and coral obl	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme
2	balance	participle · passive		pearls and others	heads bales of the richest stuffs	again		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme upon bale=Location
3	bring	past	the rest	fruit and flowers and birds				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fruit=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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