The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 82

The pomegranates were garnets, the marigolds topazes, the daffodils yellow diamonds, the violets sapphires, the corn-flowers turquoises, the tulips amethysts, opals and diamonds, so that the garden borders blazed like the sun. The Golden Branch itself had become as tall as a forest tree, and sparkled with ruby cherries to its topmost twig.

Who acts: pomegranates, garden borders, Golden Branch · What happens: be, blaze, become, sparkle · To what, where: garnets, sun.

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pomegranates, garden borders, Golden Branch), 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 pomegranates	det
2	pomegranates	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 garnets	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 garnets	cop
4	garnets	garnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 topazes	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 marigolds	det
7	marigolds	marigold	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 topazes	compound
8	topazes	topaz	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 garnets	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 daffodils	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 daffodils	det
11	daffodils	daffodil	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 topazes	conj
12	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 diamonds	amod
13	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 garnets	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sapphires	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 violets	det
16	violets	violet	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sapphires	compound
17	sapphires	sapphire	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 diamonds	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turquoises	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 flowers	det
20	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flowers	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 corn	punct
22	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 turquoises	compound
23	turquoises	turquoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 diamonds	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 amethysts	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tulips	det
26	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 amethysts	compound
27	amethysts	amethyst	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 diamonds	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 opals	punct
29	opals	opal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 diamonds	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 diamonds	cc
31	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 diamonds	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 blazed	punct
33	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	38 blazed	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 so	fixed
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 borders	det
36	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 borders	compound
37	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 blazed	nsubj
38	blazed	blaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 garnets	parataxis
39	like	like	ADP	_	41 sun.	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sun.	det
41	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 blazed	obl
42	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Branch	det
43	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 Branch	amod
44	Branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 become	nsubj
45	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	44 Branch	nmod:unmarked
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 become	aux
47	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 sun.	acl:relcl
48	as	as	ADV	_	49 tall	advmod
49	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 become	xcomp
50	as	as	ADP	_	53 tree	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 tree	det
52	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 tree	compound
53	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 tall	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 sparkled	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 sparkled	cc
56	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 blazed	conj
57	with	with	ADP	_	59 cherries	case
58	ruby	ruby	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 cherries	compound
59	cherries	cherry	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 sparkled	obl
60	to	to	ADP	_	63 twig	case
61	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 twig	nmod:poss
62	topmost	topmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 twig	amod
63	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 sparkled	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 garnets	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the pomegranates	garnets and yellow diamonds and violets sapphires and flowers turquoises and tulips amethysts and opals and diamonds	marigolds topazes and the daffodils nmod	tree rules
2	blaze	past	the garden borders		like the sun.	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become	past · perfect	the Golden Branch Branch	the sun. not said here	tall property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient sun.=Result
4	sparkle	participle	the garden borders not said here		with ruby cherries; to Branch's topmost twig	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with cherry=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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