The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 80
Everywhere were mirrors, lights, flowers, and damask hangings.
What happens: be · To what, where: mirrors
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: 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 | Everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 mirrors | advmod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mirrors | cop |
| 3 | mirrors | mirror | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lights | punct |
| 5 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mirrors | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 flowers | punct |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mirrors | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hangings | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hangings | cc |
| 10 | damask | damask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hangings | compound |
| 11 | hangings | hanging | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mirrors | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mirrors | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | mirrors and lights and flowers and damask hangings | everywhere property | 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 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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