The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 139

Gold and precious stones were as common as wood with us, and the stables where the horses of the sun were kept were more splendid than the palace of the greatest emperor in the world.

Who acts: Gold, stables · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: horses

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gold, stables), 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	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 common	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 stones	cc
3	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stones	amod
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Gold	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 common	cop
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 common	advmod
7	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 wood	case
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 common	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 us	case
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 wood	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 splendid	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 splendid	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stables	det
15	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 splendid	nsubj
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 kept	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 horses	det
18	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 kept	nsubj:pass
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 sun	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sun	det
21	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 horses	nmod
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 kept	aux:pass
23	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 stables	acl:relcl
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 splendid	cop
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 splendid	advmod
26	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 common	conj
27	than	than	ADP	_	29 palace	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 palace	det
29	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 splendid	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 emperor	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 emperor	det
32	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 emperor	amod
33	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 palace	nmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 world	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 world	det
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 emperor	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 common	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Gold and precious stones		as wood with us; common property	tree rules
2	keep	past · passive		the horses of the sun		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	past	the stables		than the palace of the greatest emperor in the world; splendid 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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