The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 11

And behold! the apples were beginning to ripen, and lit up the whole palace with their brightness.

Who acts: apples · What happens: begin, ripen, lit up · To what, where: whole palace

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apples), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 beginning	cc
2	behold	behold	INTJ	_	7 beginning	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 behold	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 apples	det
5	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 beginning	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 beginning	aux
7	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 ripen	mark
9	ripen	ripen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 beginning	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lit	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lit	cc
12	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 beginning	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 lit	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 palace	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 palace	amod
16	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lit	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 brightness	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 brightness	nmod:poss
19	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 palace	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 beginning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past · progressive	the apples			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	ripen	to-infinitive	the apples not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	lit up	participle	the apples not said here	the whole palace	with apples's brightness	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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