The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 2
This time there sprang up a great tower of stone, smooth as ivory, hard as steel, which reached up to heaven itself.
What happens: spring up, reach up · To what, where: great tower
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sprang | advmod |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 sprang | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tower | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tower | amod |
| 8 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 stone | case |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tower | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 smooth | punct |
| 12 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tower | appos |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 ivory | case |
| 14 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smooth | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hard | punct |
| 16 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 smooth | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 steel | case |
| 18 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hard | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reached | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 reached | nsubj |
| 21 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hard | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 reached | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 heaven | case |
| 24 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | obl |
| 25 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 24 heaven | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | a great tower of stone | there | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tower=Theme | |||
| 2 | reach up | past | to heaven heaven | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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