The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 43

For every tiny splinter of the glass possessed the same power that the whole glass had.

Who acts: whole glass · What happens: possess, have · To what, where: same power

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole glass), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 splinter	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 splinter	det
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 splinter	amod
4	splinter	splinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 possessed	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 glass	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 glass	det
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 splinter	nmod
8	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 power	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 power	amod
11	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 possessed	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 had	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 glass	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 glass	amod
15	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 power	acl:relcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 possessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	past		the same power				for every tiny splinter of the glass	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot power=Theme
2	have	past	the whole glass	the same power					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient

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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