The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 37
For in front of him stretched a forest that was far more wonderful, as it was made of glistening trees and shining flowers.
Who acts: forest · What happens: stretch, be, make, glisten, shine · To what, where: forest, trees, flowers
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 front | case |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 front | case |
| 3 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stretched | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 front | nmod |
| 6 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stretched | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 wonderful | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wonderful | cop |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 more | advmod |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 wonderful | advmod |
| 13 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 forest | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 made | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | aux:pass |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stretched | conj |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 glistening | mark |
| 20 | glistening | glisten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 made | advcl |
| 21 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 glistening | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shining | cc |
| 23 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 glistening | conj |
| 24 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 shining | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | past | a forest | for front of Petru | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent forest=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a forest | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past · passive | forest | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 4 | glisten | gerund | trees | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | |||||
| 5 | shine | gerund | flowers | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flower=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 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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