The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 64
Here is an ivory tube, which appears to the eye no more a prodigy than your carpet.
Who acts: ivory tube · What happens: be, appear
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ivory tube), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tube | det |
| 4 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tube | compound |
| 5 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 appears | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 appears | nsubj |
| 8 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tube | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 eye | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eye | det |
| 11 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appears | obl |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 prodigy | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 prodigy | det |
| 15 | prodigy | prodigy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eye | nmod |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 carpet | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 carpet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prodigy | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a ivory tube | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | a ivory tube | to the eye a prodigy than your carpet | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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