The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 19

Nothing was left of either of them except their bones, which rattled in the battered golden armour like dry peas in a pod.

Who acts: bones · What happens: leave, rattle, batter · To what, where: Nothing, battered golden armour

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (bones), 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 left	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	aux:pass
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 either	case
5	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	3 left	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 either	nmod
8	except	except	ADP	_	10 bones	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bones	nmod:poss
10	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 left	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rattled	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 rattled	nsubj
13	rattled	rattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bones	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 armour	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 armour	det
16	battered	batter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 armour	amod
17	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 armour	amod
18	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rattled	obl
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 peas	case
20	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 peas	amod
21	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 armour	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 pod	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pod	det
24	pod	pod	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 peas	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		Nothing		of either; except riders's bones	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of either=Destination
2	rattle	past	riders's bones		the battered golden armour like dry peas in a pod		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in armour=Location
3	batter	participle					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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