The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 17
The windows were very high, and the panes were red, blue, and yellow, so that the light came through in curious colours.
Who acts: windows, panes, light · What happens: be, come through · To what, where: curious colours
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (windows, panes, light), 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 windows | det |
| 2 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 high | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 high | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 high | advmod |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 red | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 red | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 panes | det |
| 9 | panes | pane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 red | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 red | cop |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 high | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blue | punct |
| 13 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 red | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 yellow | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 yellow | cc |
| 16 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 high | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 came | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 light | det |
| 21 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 high | parataxis |
| 23 | through | through | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 colours | case |
| 25 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 colours | amod |
| 26 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 came | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the windows | high property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the panes | red property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the panes not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | the windows not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | come through | past | the light | curious colours | through property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in colour=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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