The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 102

But it was not a book, but a little mechanical toy, which lay in a box--an artificial nightingale which was like the real one, only that it was set all over with diamonds, rubies, and sapphires.

Who acts: parcel, little mechanical toy, artificial nightingale, real one · What happens: not be, lie, be, set · To what, where: book, box, parcel

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parcel, little mechanical toy, artificial nightingale, real one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 book	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 book	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 book	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 book	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 book	det
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 toy	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 toy	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 toy	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 toy	amod
11	mechanical	mechanical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 toy	amod
12	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 book	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lay	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lay	nsubj
15	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 toy	parataxis
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 box	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 box	det
18	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lay	obl
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 nightingale	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 nightingale	det
21	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 nightingale	amod
22	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 box	conj
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 one	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 one	cop
25	like	like	ADP	_	28 one	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 one	det
27	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 one	amod
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 nightingale	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 set	punct
30	only	only	ADV	_	34 set	advmod
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 set	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 set	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 set	aux:pass
34	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 one	acl
35	all	all	ADV	_	36 over	advmod
36	over	over	ADV	_	34 set	advmod
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 diamonds	case
38	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 set	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 rubies	punct
40	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 diamonds	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 sapphires	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 sapphires	cc
43	sapphires	sapphire	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 diamonds	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 book	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	parcel	a book			tree rules
2	lie	past	a little mechanical toy		a box and a artificial nightingale		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in box=Location
3	is	past	a artificial nightingale			like the real one	tree rules
4	set	past · passive	the real one not said here	parcel		with diamonds and rubies and sapphires; over property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with diamond=Instrument

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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