The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 99
The trees and shrubs were covered with rime, and looked like a wood of coral, and every branch was thick with long white blossoms.
Who acts: branch · What happens: cover, look, be · To what, where: trees
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 (branch), 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 | 2 trees | det |
| 2 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 shrubs | cc |
| 4 | shrubs | shrub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trees | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 covered | aux:pass |
| 6 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 rime | case |
| 8 | rime | rime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 covered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 covered | parataxis |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wood | det |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 coral | case |
| 16 | coral | coral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wood | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thick | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 thick | cc |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 branch | det |
| 20 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thick | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 thick | cop |
| 22 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 looked | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 blossoms | case |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 blossoms | amod |
| 25 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 blossoms | amod |
| 26 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 thick | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | the trees and shrubs | with rime | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with rime=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | like a wood of coral | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | every branch | with long white blossoms; thick 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/99/