The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 110
It gave just as much pleasure as the real one, and then it was so much prettier to look at; it sparkled like bracelets and necklaces.
Who acts: duet · What happens: give, be, look, sparkle · To what, where: much pleasure
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 (duet), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pleasure | amod |
| 6 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 prettier | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 prettier | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 prettier | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 prettier | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 prettier | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 prettier | advmod |
| 18 | prettier | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 gave | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 look | mark |
| 20 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 prettier | acl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 look | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 sparkled | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sparkled | nsubj |
| 24 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 bracelets | case |
| 26 | bracelets | bracelet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sparkled | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 necklaces | cc |
| 28 | necklaces | necklace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bracelets | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | duet | much pleasure | as the real one | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | duet | then | pretty property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | sparkle | past | duet | like bracelets and necklaces | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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