The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 40
Gold and silver bars lay piled on the floor, and glittered so that you could not look at them!
Who acts: Gold bars, you · What happens: lay, pile, glitter, not look · To what, where: floor
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gold bars, you), 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 | 4 bars | compound |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 silver | cc |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gold | conj |
| 4 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lay | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 floor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 floor | det |
| 9 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 glittered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 glittered | cc |
| 12 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lay | conj |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 look | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 so | fixed |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 look | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 look | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 look | advmod |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 glittered | advcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 look | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | Gold bars | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pile | participle | Gold bars not said here | the floor | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on floor=Destination | ||||
| 3 | glitter | participle | Gold bars not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not look | could | you | at bars = bar | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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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