The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 16
Hardly had he done so than the walls immediately turned into ivory, so richly inlaid with gold and silver that they dazzled the eyes of all beholders.
Who acts: creature, walls, Cola · What happens: do, turn, inlay, dazzle · To what, where: ivory, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, walls, Cola), 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 | Hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 done | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 walls | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 walls | det |
| 8 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 so | obl |
| 9 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 10 turned | advmod |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 walls | acl:relcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 ivory | case |
| 12 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 inlaid | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 inlaid | advmod |
| 15 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 16 inlaid | advmod |
| 16 | inlaid | inlay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 done | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 inlaid | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 silver | cc |
| 20 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gold | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 dazzled | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 dazzled | nsubj |
| 23 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 inlaid | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 eyes | det |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 dazzled | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 beholders | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 beholders | det |
| 28 | beholders | beholder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 eyes | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | creature | hardly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | the walls not said here | ivory | immediately property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into ivory=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | inlay | participle | creature not said here | with gold and silver; richly property | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dazzle | past | Cola | the eyes of all beholders | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer |
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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