The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 49
The precious stones sparkled so brightly on all sides that it was a pleasure to see them, and they collected the most beautiful and costly together.
Who acts: precious stones · What happens: sparkle, be, see, collect · To what, where: precious stones, sides, pleasure, stones
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (precious stones), 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 | 3 stones | det |
| 2 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stones | amod |
| 3 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 collected | nsubj |
| 4 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stones | acl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 brightly | advmod |
| 6 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 4 sparkled | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 sides | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 sides | det |
| 9 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sparkled | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 pleasure | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pleasure | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pleasure | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pleasure | det |
| 14 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sides | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pleasure | acl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 see | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 collected | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 collected | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 collected | nsubj |
| 21 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 beautiful | det |
| 23 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 beautiful | advmod |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 collected | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 costly | cc |
| 26 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 beautiful | conj |
| 27 | together | together | ADV | _ | 21 collected | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sparkle | participle | the precious stones not said here | all sides | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a pleasure | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | stones = stone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | collect | past | the precious stones | beautiful, together property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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