The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 17
They could see neither moon nor stars, but in the Queen’s neck-handkerchief there was a carbuncle which glowed like fifty torches.
Who acts: dagger, carbuncle · What happens: see, be, glow · To what, where: moon, neck handkerchief
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dagger, carbuncle), 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 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 moon | cc:preconj |
| 5 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 stars | cc |
| 7 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 moon | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 was | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 was | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 handkerchief | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Queen | det |
| 12 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 handkerchief | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Queen | case |
| 14 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 handkerchief | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 neck | punct |
| 16 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | obl |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 carbuncle | det |
| 20 | carbuncle | carbuncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | nsubj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 glowed | nsubj |
| 22 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 carbuncle | acl:relcl |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 torches | case |
| 24 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 torches | nummod |
| 25 | torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 glowed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | dagger | moon nor stars | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moon=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a carbuncle | the Queen's neck handkerchief; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in handkerchief=Location | ||||
| 3 | glow | past | a carbuncle | like fifty torches | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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