The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 32
We have looked in at the windows and seen them planted in the middle of the warm room and adorned with the most beautiful things-golden apples, sweet-meats, toys and hundreds of candles.’
Who acts: We · What happens: look in, see, plant, adorn · To what, where: windows, middle
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | aux |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 looked | compound:prt |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 windows | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 windows | det |
| 7 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seen | cc |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 looked | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | obj |
| 11 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 seen | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 middle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 middle | det |
| 14 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 planted | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 room | det |
| 17 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 room | amod |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 middle | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 adorned | cc |
| 20 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 seen | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 things | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 things | det |
| 23 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 beautiful | advmod |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 things | amod |
| 25 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 adorned | obl |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 apples | punct |
| 27 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 apples | amod |
| 28 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 things | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 meats | punct |
| 30 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 meats | amod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 sweet | punct |
| 32 | meats | meat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 apples | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 toys | punct |
| 34 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 apples | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 hundreds | cc |
| 36 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 apples | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 candles | case |
| 38 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 hundreds | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in | present · perfect | We | at the windows | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | participle | We not said here | windows = window | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | plant | participle | We not said here | the middle of the warm room | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in middle=Destination | ||||
| 4 | adorn | participle | We not said here | with the beautiful things golden apples and sweet meats and toys and hundreds of candles | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with thing=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 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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