The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 69
They next crossed another wood where the leaves were sprinkled with gold, and after that another still, where the leaves glittered with diamonds.
Who acts: leaves · What happens: cross, sprinkle, glitter · To what, where: wood, leaves, that
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaves), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crossed | nsubj |
| 2 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 crossed | advmod |
| 3 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 wood | det |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | obj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 sprinkled | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 leaves | det |
| 8 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sprinkled | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sprinkled | aux:pass |
| 10 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wood | acl:relcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sprinkled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 glittered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 glittered | cc |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 glittered | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 that | conj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 glittered | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 glittered | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 glittered | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 leaves | det |
| 22 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 glittered | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 crossed | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 diamonds | case |
| 25 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 glittered | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | leaves = leaf | another wood | next property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient | |||
| 2 | sprinkle | past · passive | the leaves | with gold | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with gold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glitter | participle · passive | that | still | with diamonds | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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