The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 50
Ugly and old as the cabinet was outside, nothing could have been more rich and beautiful than what met the Prince’s astonished eyes.
Who acts: cabinet, nothing · What happens: be, meet · To what, where: astonished eyes
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (cabinet, nothing), 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 | Ugly | ugly | ADV | _ | 3 old | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 old | cc |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 outside | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cabinet | det |
| 6 | cabinet | cabinet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 outside | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 outside | cop |
| 8 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 3 old | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rich | punct |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 rich | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 rich | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 rich | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 rich | cop |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 rich | advmod |
| 15 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 old | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 beautiful | cc |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rich | conj |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 met | mark |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 met | nsubj |
| 20 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 beautiful | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Prince | det |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Prince | case |
| 24 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 eyes | amod |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 met | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cabinet | outside property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | could · perfect | nothing | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | nothing not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | meet | past | the Prince's astonished eyes | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Co-Agent |
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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