The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 86
The place was full of saddles, bridles, and bits of leather.
Who acts: place · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place), 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 place | det |
| 2 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 saddles | case |
| 6 | saddles | saddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bridles | punct |
| 8 | bridles | bridle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saddles | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bits | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bits | cc |
| 11 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saddles | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 leather | case |
| 13 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bits | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the place | of saddles and bridles and bits of leather; full property | tree rules |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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