The Red Fairy Book, The Talking Harp., sentence 12
The framework was all sparkling with diamonds and rubies, and the strings were all of gold.
Who acts: framework · What happens: sparkle
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Talking Harp.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (framework), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 framework | det |
| 2 | framework | framework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sparkling | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sparkling | aux |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 sparkling | advmod |
| 5 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 diamonds | case |
| 7 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sparkling | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rubies | cc |
| 9 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 diamonds | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 all | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 all | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 strings | det |
| 13 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 all | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 all | cop |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 sparkling | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gold | case |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 all | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sparkling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sparkle | past · progressive | the framework | with diamonds and rubies; all property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with diamond=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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