The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 73
The palace of the Magician was all hewn out of a single carbuncle, lighting up the whole surrounding region, and Prince Milan walked into it gaily.
Who acts: palace, Prince Milan · What happens: be, light up, walk · To what, where: single carbuncle, whole surrounding region, palace
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, Prince Milan), 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 palace | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hewn | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Magician | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Magician | det |
| 5 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 palace | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hewn | cop |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 hewn | advmod |
| 8 | hewn | hewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 carbuncle | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 carbuncle | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 carbuncle | det |
| 12 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 carbuncle | amod |
| 13 | carbuncle | carbuncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hewn | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lighting | punct |
| 15 | lighting | light | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 hewn | appos |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 lighting | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 region | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 region | amod |
| 19 | surrounding | surrounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 region | compound |
| 20 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lighting | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 walked | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 walked | cc |
| 23 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Milan | compound |
| 24 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 walked | nsubj |
| 25 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hewn | parataxis |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 walked | obl |
| 28 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 walked | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hewn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the palace of the Magician | a single carbuncle | all, hewn property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | light up | gerund | the whole surrounding region | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Product | |||||
| 3 | walk | past | Prince Milan | palace | gaily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination |
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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