The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 81
The roof was all of crimson roses, the windows of lilies, the walls of white carnations, the floors of glowing auriculas and violets, the doors of gorgeous tulips and narcissi with sunflowers for knockers, and all round hyacinths and other sweet-smelling flowers bloomed in masses, so that the air was perfumed far and near and enchanted all who were present.
What happens: glow, smell, bloom, perfume, enchant, be · To what, where: other smelling flowers, masses, air, all
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 roof | det |
| 2 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 all | cop |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 roof | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 roses | case |
| 6 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roses | compound |
| 7 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 all | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 roof | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 windows | det |
| 10 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 roof | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lilies | case |
| 12 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 windows | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 walls | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 walls | det |
| 15 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 windows | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 carnations | case |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 carnations | amod |
| 18 | carnations | carnation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 walls | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 floors | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 floors | det |
| 21 | floors | floor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 windows | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 auriculas | case |
| 23 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 auriculas | amod |
| 24 | auriculas | auricula | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 floors | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 violets | cc |
| 26 | violets | violet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 auriculas | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 doors | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 doors | det |
| 29 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 auriculas | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 tulips | case |
| 31 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 tulips | amod |
| 32 | tulips | tulip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 doors | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 narcissi | cc |
| 34 | narcissi | narcissi | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 windows | conj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 sunflowers | case |
| 36 | sunflowers | sunflower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 narcissi | nmod |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 knockers | case |
| 38 | knockers | knocker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 sunflowers | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 hyacinths | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 hyacinths | cc |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 hyacinths | det |
| 42 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 hyacinths | amod |
| 43 | hyacinths | hyacinth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 narcissi | appos |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 flowers | cc |
| 45 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 flowers | amod |
| 46 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 smelling | compound |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 sweet | punct |
| 48 | smelling | smell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 49 flowers | amod |
| 49 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 hyacinths | conj |
| 50 | bloomed | bloom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 flowers | acl |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 masses | case |
| 52 | masses | mass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 bloomed | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 perfumed | punct |
| 54 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 59 perfumed | mark |
| 55 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 54 so | fixed |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 air | det |
| 57 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 perfumed | nsubj:pass |
| 58 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 59 perfumed | aux:pass |
| 59 | perfumed | perfume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 hyacinths | parataxis |
| 60 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 59 perfumed | advmod |
| 61 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 near | cc |
| 62 | near | near | ADV | _ | 60 far | conj |
| 63 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 enchanted | cc |
| 64 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 59 perfumed | conj |
| 65 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 64 enchanted | obj |
| 66 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 68 present | nsubj |
| 67 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 68 present | cop |
| 68 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 all | acl:relcl |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 roof | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | smell | gerund | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | bloom | participle | other smelling flowers not said here | masses | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mass=Location | ||||
| 4 | perfume | past · passive | the air | far property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 5 | enchant | past | all | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus all=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | past | present 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 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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