The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 50
Heavens! what a heap of gold there was!
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. 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 | Heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Heavens | appos |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 heap | det |
| 5 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heap | nmod |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Heavens | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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