The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 100

The most delicate twigs, which are lost among the foliage in summer-time, came now into prominence, and it was like a spider’s web of glistening white.

Who acts: delicate twigs, branch, web · What happens: lose, come, be, glisten · To what, where: delicate twigs, prominence

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (delicate twigs, branch, web), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 twigs	det
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 delicate	advmod
3	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 twigs	amod
4	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 came	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lost	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lost	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	aux:pass
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 twigs	acl:relcl
9	among	among	ADP	_	11 foliage	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 foliage	det
11	foliage	foliage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lost	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 time	case
13	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 time	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 summer	punct
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 foliage	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 twigs	punct
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 came	advmod
19	into	into	ADP	_	20 prominence	case
20	prominence	prominence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 web	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 web	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 web	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 web	cop
25	like	like	ADP	_	29 web	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 spider	det
27	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 web	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 spider	case
29	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	parataxis
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 glistening	mark
31	glistening	glisten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 web	acl
32	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 glistening	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		the delicate twigs			among the foliage in summer time	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	come	past	the delicate twigs		prominence	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into prominence=Initial_Location
3	is	past	branch				like a spider's web	tree rules
4	glisten	gerund	a spider's web not said here				white property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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