The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 98

The walls of the palace were built of driven snow, and the doors and windows of piercing winds.

What happens: build, drive · To what, where: walls

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: 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 walls	det
2	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 built	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 palace	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 palace	det
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walls	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 built	aux:pass
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 snow	case
9	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 snow	amod
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 doors	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 doors	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 doors	det
14	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 built	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 windows	cc
16	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 doors	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 winds	case
18	piercing	piercing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 winds	compound
19	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 windows	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive		the walls of the palace				of driven snow; the doors and windows of piercing winds obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	drive	participle							vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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 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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