The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 70

Here the sparks had turned into two little fishes with golden scales, and one was so exactly like the other that everyone could tell at the first glance that they must be twins.

Who acts: sparks, one, everyone · What happens: turn, be, tell · To what, where: first glance, twins · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparks, one, everyone), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 turned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sparks	det
3	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turned	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	aux
5	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 fishes	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 fishes	nummod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fishes	amod
9	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turned	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 scales	case
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 scales	amod
12	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fishes	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 other	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 other	cc
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 other	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 other	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 exactly	advmod
18	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	21 other	advmod
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 other	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 other	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turned	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 tell	mark
23	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	25 tell	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 tell	aux
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 other	advcl
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 glance	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 glance	det
28	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 glance	amod
29	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tell	obl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 twins	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 twins	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 twins	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 twins	cop
34	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 glance	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past · perfect	the sparks		here	into two little fishes with golden scales result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into fish=Result
2	is	past	one			exactly, other property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	could	everyone		the first glance		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	must	sparks = spark	twins			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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