The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 21
No sooner had he scattered them over the paths and walls of the King’s garden than they became one blaze of glittering gold, so that everyone’s eyes were dazzled with the brilliancy, and everyone’s soul was filled with wonder.
Who acts: King, fragments, one blaze · What happens: scatter, become, glitter, dazzle, fill · To what, where: fragments, paths, one blaze, gold, eyes, everyone
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 (King, fragments, one blaze), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 scattered | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scattered | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 scattered | nsubj |
| 5 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 scattered | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 paths | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 paths | det |
| 9 | paths | path | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scattered | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 walls | cc |
| 11 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 paths | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 garden | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 King | case |
| 16 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walls | nmod |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 became | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 became | nsubj |
| 19 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scattered | advcl |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 blaze | nummod |
| 21 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 became | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 glittering | mark |
| 23 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 blaze | acl |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 glittering | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 dazzled | punct |
| 26 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 32 dazzled | mark |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 dazzled | mark |
| 28 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 30 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 everyone | case |
| 30 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 dazzled | nsubj |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 dazzled | aux:pass |
| 32 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 became | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 brilliancy | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 brilliancy | det |
| 35 | brilliancy | brilliancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dazzled | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 filled | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 filled | cc |
| 38 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 42 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 filled | aux |
| 40 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 filled | aux:pass |
| 42 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 scattered | conj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 wonder | case |
| 44 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 filled | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | past | King | fragments = fragment | the paths and walls of the King's garden | soon property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme over path=Destination | ||
| 2 | become | past | fragments = fragment | one blaze | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | glitter | gerund | one blaze not said here | gold | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dazzle | past · passive | everyone's eyes | with the brilliancy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | fill | present · passive | everyone | with wonder | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with wonder=Instrument |
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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