The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 99
There were more than a hundred halls in it all of frozen snow.
Who acts: hundred halls · What happens: be, freeze
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 (hundred halls), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 6 hundred | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 3 more | fixed |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hundred | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 halls | nummod |
| 7 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 halls | nmod |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 it | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 snow | case |
| 12 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 snow | amod |
| 13 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 all | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | hundred halls in palace | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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