The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 102
The guests were all lost in admiration, for the cake was quite a work of art.
Who acts: cake · What happens: lose, be · To what, where: guests, admiration
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (cake), 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 guests | det |
| 2 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | aux:pass |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 lost | advmod |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 admiration | case |
| 7 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 work | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 work | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cake | det |
| 11 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 work | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 work | cop |
| 13 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 work | det:predet |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 work | det |
| 15 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 art | case |
| 17 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 work | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | the guests | admiration | all property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | past | the cake | for quite work; of art | tree rules |
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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