The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 79
The porcelain walls and floors glittered in the light of many thousand gold lamps; the most gorgeous flowers which tinkled out well were placed in the corridors.
Who acts: porcelain walls · What happens: glitter, tinkle out, place, light · To what, where: light, gorgeous flowers, corridors, thousand gold lamps
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 (porcelain walls), 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 | 3 walls | det |
| 2 | porcelain | porcelain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walls | compound |
| 3 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 glittered | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 floors | cc |
| 5 | floors | floor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walls | conj |
| 6 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 light | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 light | det |
| 9 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glittered | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 lamps | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thousand | amod |
| 12 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 lamps | nummod |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lamps | compound |
| 14 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 light | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 flowers | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 flowers | det |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 gorgeous | advmod |
| 18 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 flowers | amod |
| 19 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 tinkled | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | tinkled | tinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 flowers | acl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 tinkled | compound:prt |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 tinkled | advmod |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 placed | aux:pass |
| 25 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 glittered | parataxis |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 corridors | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 corridors | det |
| 28 | corridors | corridor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 placed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 glittered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | past | the porcelain walls and floors | the light of thousand gold lamps | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location | ||||
| 2 | tinkle out | participle · passive | the gorgeous flowers | well property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | place | past · passive | the gorgeous flowers | the corridors | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in corridor=Destination | ||||
| 4 | light | thousand gold lamps | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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