The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 25
The walls, washed by the quiet waters, were covered with gold, which made one think of the yellow sands.
Who acts: gold, yellow sands · What happens: wash, cover, make, think · To what, where: walls, one think
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gold, yellow sands), 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 walls | det |
| 2 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 washed | punct |
| 4 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 walls | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 waters | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 waters | det |
| 7 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 waters | amod |
| 8 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 washed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 walls | punct |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 covered | aux:pass |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gold | acl:relcl |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 think | nummod |
| 18 | think | think | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sands | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sands | det |
| 21 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sands | amod |
| 22 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 think | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | participle | the walls not said here | by the quiet waters | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | the walls | with gold | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with gold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | gold | one think of the yellow sands | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset think=Product | ||||
| 4 | think | the yellow sands | nom think «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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