The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 99
Everything in the kitchen was of the best and most beautiful kind, and swarms of cooks and scullions were busy preparing dishes.
Who acts: Everything, swarms · What happens: be, prepare · To what, where: dishes
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (Everything, swarms), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 kitchen | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kitchen | det |
| 4 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Everything | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 kind | cop |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 kind | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kind | det |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 kind | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kind | cc |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 beautiful | advmod |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 kind | amod |
| 12 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 busy | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 busy | cc |
| 15 | swarms | swarm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 busy | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 cooks | case |
| 17 | cooks | cook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 swarms | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 scullions | cc |
| 19 | scullions | scullion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cooks | conj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 busy | cop |
| 21 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 kind | conj |
| 22 | preparing | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 busy | advcl |
| 23 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 preparing | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Everything | of the best beautiful kind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | swarms of cooks and scullions | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prepare | gerund | swarms of cooks and scullions not said here | dishes | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient |
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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