The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 62
Dolls as life-like as human beings--the fir-tree had never seen any before were suspended among the green, and right up at the top was fixed a gold tinsel star; it was gorgeous, quite unusually gorgeous!
Who acts: Dolls, star · What happens: not see, suspend, fix, be · To what, where: fir tree, Dolls, green, right, top
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 (Dolls, star), 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 | Dolls | doll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 suspended | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 like | mark |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Dolls | acl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 beings | case |
| 7 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beings | amod |
| 8 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 like | obl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 11 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 fir | punct |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 seen | advmod |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Dolls | acl |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 before | det |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 seen | advmod |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 suspended | aux:pass |
| 20 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | among | among | ADP | _ | 23 green | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 green | det |
| 23 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 suspended | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fixed | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 fixed | cc |
| 26 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 right | compound:prt |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 top | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 top | det |
| 30 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fixed | obl |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 fixed | aux:pass |
| 32 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 suspended | advcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 star | det |
| 34 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tinsel | compound |
| 35 | tinsel | tinsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 star | compound |
| 36 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fixed | obj |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 gorgeous | punct |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 gorgeous | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 gorgeous | cop |
| 40 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 suspended | parataxis |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 gorgeous | punct |
| 42 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 44 gorgeous | advmod |
| 43 | unusually | unusually | ADV | _ | 44 gorgeous | advmod |
| 44 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 gorgeous | conj |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 suspended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect · passive | Dolls not said here | the fir tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | suspend | past · passive | Dolls | the green | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme among green=Destination | ||||
| 3 | fix | past · passive | right | the top | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary star=Product | ||||
| 4 | is | past | star | gorgeous property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | star not said here | unusually 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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