The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 95
‘The halls blazed with lights; councillors and ambassadors were walking about in noiseless shoes carrying gold dishes.
Who acts: halls, noiseless shoes · What happens: blaze, walk, carry · To what, where: halls, noiseless shoes, gold dishes
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 (halls, noiseless shoes), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 walking | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 halls | det |
| 3 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 walking | nsubj |
| 4 | blazed | blaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 halls | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 lights | case |
| 6 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blazed | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 councillors | punct |
| 8 | councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 halls | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ambassadors | cc |
| 10 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 halls | conj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 walking | aux |
| 12 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 walking | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 shoes | case |
| 15 | noiseless | noiseless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shoes | amod |
| 16 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 walking | obl |
| 17 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 shoes | acl |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dishes | compound |
| 19 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 carrying | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blaze | participle | the halls and councillors and ambassadors not said here | with lights | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | past · progressive | the halls and councillors and ambassadors | noiseless shoes | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shoe=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | carry | gerund | noiseless shoes not said here | gold dishes | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=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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