The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 3

The Emperor’s Palace was the most splendid in the world, all made of priceless porcelain, but so brittle and delicate that you had to take great care how you touched it.

Who acts: Palace, you · What happens: be, make, have, take, touch · To what, where: world, all, great care, care

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 (Palace, you), 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 Emperor	det
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Palace	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Emperor	case
4	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 splendid	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 splendid	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 splendid	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 splendid	advmod
8	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 splendid	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 made	nsubj:pass
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 splendid	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 porcelain	case
16	priceless	priceless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 porcelain	amod
17	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 brittle	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 brittle	cc
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 brittle	advmod
21	brittle	brittle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 splendid	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 delicate	cc
23	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 brittle	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 had	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 delicate	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 take	mark
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 had	xcomp
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 care	amod
30	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obj
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 touched	advmod
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 touched	nsubj
33	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 take	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 touched	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 splendid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Emperor's Palace		the world	splendid property	tree rules
2	make	participle · passive		all		of priceless porcelain	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	be		the Emperor's Palace not said here				tree rules
4	have	past	you				tree rules
5	take	to-infinitive	you not said here	great care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
6	touch	past	you	care			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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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