The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 68

The trumpets gave no more sound than whistles made of onion-stalks, or combs wrapped in paper; while the train of fifty carriages looked no better than fifty donkey carts.

Who acts: trumpets, train · What happens: give, make, wrap, look · To what, where: more sound, whistles, combs, paper

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trumpets, train), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trumpets	det
2	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 sound	det
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 sound	amod
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 whistles	case
8	whistles	whistle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sound	nmod
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 whistles	acl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 stalks	case
11	onion	onion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stalks	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 onion	punct
13	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 made	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 combs	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 combs	cc
16	combs	comb	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stalks	conj
17	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 combs	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 paper	case
19	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wrapped	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 looked	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 looked	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 train	det
23	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 looked	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 carriages	case
25	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 carriages	nummod
26	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 train	nmod
27	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
28	no	no	ADV	_	29 better	advmod
29	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 looked	xcomp
30	than	than	ADP	_	33 carts	case
31	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 carts	nummod
32	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 carts	compound
33	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 better	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	the trumpets	no more sound		than whistles	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
2	make	participle		whistles not said here		of onion stalks or combs	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	wrap	participle		combs not said here	paper		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in paper=Destination
4	look	past	the train of fifty carriages			good 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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