The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 151
The many lights made the porcelain walls and floors glitter, and the gorgeous tinkling flowers helped to make the place look very beautiful.
Who acts: many lights, floors, gorgeous tinkling flowers, place · What happens: make, glitter, help, look · To what, where: porcelain walls, place
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many lights, floors, gorgeous tinkling flowers, place), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lights | det |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lights | amod |
| 3 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 walls | det |
| 6 | porcelain | porcelain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walls | compound |
| 7 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 glitter | cc |
| 9 | floors | floor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 glitter | nsubj |
| 10 | glitter | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 helped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 helped | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 flowers | det |
| 14 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flowers | amod |
| 15 | tinkling | tinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flowers | compound |
| 16 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 helped | nsubj |
| 17 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 helped | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | xcomp |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 beautiful | advmod |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 look | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the many lights | the porcelain walls | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wall=Product | ||||
| 2 | glitter | present | floors | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help | past | the gorgeous tinkling flowers | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | the gorgeous tinkling flowers not said here | the place | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look | present | the place not said here | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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