The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 109

Its white marble walls sparkled in the light, the roof was covered with mother o’ pearl, which shone like a rainbow, and the sun glowed like fire on the crystal windows.

Who acts: pearl, sun, ’ · What happens: sparkle, cover, shine, glow, pearl · To what, where: white marble walls, light, crystal windows

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pearl, sun, ’), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 walls	nmod:poss
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 walls	amod
3	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walls	compound
4	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 covered	nsubj:pass
5	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 walls	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 light	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 light	det
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sparkled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 walls	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 roof	det
11	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 covered	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 covered	aux:pass
13	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 mother	case
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 covered	obl
16	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	18 pearl	case
17	’	'	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 pearl	nmod:poss
18	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mother	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shone	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 shone	nsubj
21	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 pearl	acl:relcl
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 rainbow	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 rainbow	det
24	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shone	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 glowed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 glowed	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sun	det
28	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 glowed	nsubj
29	glowed	glow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 covered	conj
30	like	like	ADP	_	31 fire	case
31	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 glowed	obl
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 windows	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 windows	det
34	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 windows	compound
35	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 glowed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sparkle	participle		meadow's white marble walls not said here	the light		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location
2	cover	past · passive		meadow's white marble walls		with mother of ’'s pearl	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with mother=Theme
3	shine	past	’'s pearl			like a rainbow	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	glow	participle	the sun		the crystal windows	like fire	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on window=Location
5	pearl		’				nom pearl «possession intransitive»: poss=agent

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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