The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 62

Every fruit was a glittering star, and there was a marvellous music in the student’s room.

Who acts: fruit, marvellous music · What happens: glitter, be · To what, where: glittering star, room

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fruit, marvellous music), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 fruit	det
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 star	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 star	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 star	det
5	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 star	amod
6	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 was	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 was	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 star	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 music	det
12	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 music	amod
13	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 room	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 student	det
16	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 room	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 student	case
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 star	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	glitter	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	every fruit	a glittering star		tree rules
3	be	past	a marvellous music		the student's room; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location

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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