The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 141
They lighted their seven little lamps, and as soon as their eyes got accustomed to the glare they saw that someone had been in the room, for all was not in the same order as they had left it.
Who acts: masters, someone, all · What happens: light, accustom, see, be, not be, leave · To what, where: seven little lamps, glare, room, order · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (masters, someone, all), 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 | 2 lighted | nsubj |
| 2 | lighted | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lamps | nmod:poss |
| 4 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 lamps | nummod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lamps | amod |
| 6 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lighted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 accustomed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 accustomed | cc |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 accustomed | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 got | mark |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 15 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lighted | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 glare | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 glare | det |
| 18 | glare | glare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 accustomed | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 glare | acl:relcl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 room | mark |
| 22 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 room | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 room | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 room | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 room | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 room | det |
| 27 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 order | punct |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 order | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 order | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 order | cop |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 order | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 order | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 order | det |
| 35 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 order | amod |
| 36 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 accustomed | obl |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 left | mark |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 left | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 left | aux |
| 40 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 accustomed | advcl |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 left | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | past | masters = master | masters's seven little lamps | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Product | ||||
| 2 | accustom | past · passive | to the glare; soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | past | masters = master | the glare not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glare=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past · perfect | someone | the room | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is | past | all | for the same order | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | leave | past · perfect | masters = master | order | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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