The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 101

In the middle of the great hall was a frozen lake which had cracked in a thousand pieces; each piece was exactly like the other.

Who acts: piece · What happens: freeze, be, crack · To what, where: frozen lake, middle, thousand pieces

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piece), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lake	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 hall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hall	amod
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lake	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lake	det
10	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 lake	amod
11	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 cracked	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cracked	aux
14	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 lake	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 pieces	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 thousand	det
17	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 pieces	nummod
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cracked	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 other	punct
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 piece	det
21	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 other	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 other	cop
23	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	26 other	advmod
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 other	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 other	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lake	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	freeze	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past		a frozen lake	the middle of the great hall		tree rules
3	crack	past · perfect · passive		a frozen lake	thousand pieces		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	past	each piece			exactly, other property	tree rules

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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