The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 93
But what were their feelings when he drew a bale of linen out of his pocket which in fineness, softness, and purity of colour was unsurpassable!
Who acts: piece, feelings · What happens: be, draw · To what, where: feelings, bale, pocket
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piece, feelings), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 unsurpassable | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 feelings | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feelings | cop |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 unsurpassable | nsubj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 drew | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drew | nsubj |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feelings | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bale | det |
| 10 | bale | bale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drew | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 linen | case |
| 12 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bale | nmod |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 pocket | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 pocket | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 16 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drew | obl | ||
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 fineness | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 fineness | case |
| 19 | fineness | fineness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pocket | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 softness | punct |
| 21 | softness | softness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fineness | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 purity | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 purity | cc |
| 24 | purity | purity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 unsurpassable | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 colour | case |
| 26 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 purity | nmod |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 unsurpassable | cop |
| 28 | unsurpassable | unsurpassable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 unsurpassable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | brothers's feelings | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | draw | past | piece | a bale of linen | piece's pocket | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bale=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | brothers's feelings | unsurpassable property | 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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