The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 26
In one moment, the trees were all ablaze with rubies, emeralds, diamonds, and every other precious stone you can think of.
Who acts: trees, you · What happens: be, think · To what, where: other precious stone
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 (trees, you), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 moment | nummod |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ablaze | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trees | det |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ablaze | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ablaze | cop |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 ablaze | advmod |
| 9 | ablaze | ablaze | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 rubies | case |
| 11 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ablaze | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 emeralds | punct |
| 13 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rubies | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 diamonds | punct |
| 15 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rubies | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stone | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stone | cc |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 stone | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stone | amod |
| 20 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stone | amod |
| 21 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ablaze | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 think | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 think | aux |
| 24 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 stone | acl:relcl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 think | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ablaze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the trees | moment | with rubies and emeralds and diamonds; ablaze, all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | can | you | every other precious stone not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot stone=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 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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