The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 10
He could see into all the rooms and halls, where everything was very grand; all the furniture was of white ivory, inlaid with gold and pearl.
Who acts: troll, everything, furniture · What happens: see, be, inlay · To what, where: rooms, white ivory
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troll, everything, furniture), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 rooms | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 rooms | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rooms | det |
| 7 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 see | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 halls | cc |
| 9 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rooms | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grand | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 grand | advmod |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 grand | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 grand | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 grand | advmod |
| 15 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rooms | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 ivory | punct |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 furniture | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 furniture | det |
| 19 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ivory | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ivory | cop |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ivory | case |
| 22 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ivory | amod |
| 23 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 inlaid | punct |
| 25 | inlaid | inlay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 ivory | acl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 gold | case |
| 27 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 inlaid | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 pearl | cc |
| 29 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gold | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | troll | all rooms and halls | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | everything | grand property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | all furniture | of white ivory | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | inlay | participle | white ivory not said here | with gold and pearl | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=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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