The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 75
Hundreds of tapers burnt upon golden candlesticks, and shed a light like the brightest day.
Who acts: Hundreds · What happens: burnt, shed · To what, where: light
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hundreds), 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 | Hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 burnt | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 tapers | case |
| 3 | tapers | taper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hundreds | nmod |
| 4 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 candlesticks | case |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 candlesticks | amod |
| 7 | candlesticks | candlestick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 burnt | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shed | cc |
| 10 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 burnt | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 light | det |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shed | obj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 15 | brightest | bright | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 day | amod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 burnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt | participle | Hundreds of tapers | upon golden candlesticks | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shed | past | Hundreds of tapers not said here | a light | day | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Source |
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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