The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 63
Table and seats were all of silver, while the dishes and plates were of solid gold.
Who acts: dishes · What happens: be
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 (dishes), 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 | Table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 all | cc |
| 3 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 all | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 all | cop |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Table | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 silver | case |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 all | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gold | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 gold | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dishes | det |
| 11 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gold | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 plates | cc |
| 13 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dishes | conj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gold | cop |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gold | case |
| 16 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gold | amod |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Table | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Table | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dishes and plates | of solid gold | 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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