The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 69
It was so golden that the gold dripped off it, and the trees, and the branches, and the flowers, and the leaves were all of pure gold.
Who acts: maid · What happens: be, drip · To what, where: gold
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 golden | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 golden | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 golden | advmod |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 gold | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gold | det |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 golden | conj |
| 8 | dripped | drip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 gold | acl |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dripped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 trees | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 trees | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trees | det |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 golden | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 branches | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 branches | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 branches | det |
| 18 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 golden | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 flowers | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 flowers | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 flowers | det |
| 22 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 branches | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 all | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 all | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 leaves | det |
| 26 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 all | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 all | cop |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 golden | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 gold | case |
| 30 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 gold | amod |
| 31 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 all | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 golden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | maid | golden property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drip | participle | the gold not said here | off maid | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off it=Location |
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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