The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 77
‘I looked up as he spoke, and saw that an immense gallery ran all round the hall, in which were tapestry frames, spindles, skeins of wool, patterns, and all necessary things.
Who acts: I, Giant, immense gallery, hall · What happens: look up, speak, see, run, be · To what, where: necessary things, hall, tapestry frames · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (I, Giant, immense gallery, hall), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 looked | compound:prt |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 spoke | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spoke | nsubj |
| 7 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 ran | mark |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 gallery | det |
| 13 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gallery | amod |
| 14 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | nsubj |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | advcl |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 hall | advmod |
| 17 | round | round | ADP | _ | 19 hall | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hall | det |
| 19 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 frames | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 frames | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 frames | cop |
| 24 | tapestry | tapestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 frames | compound |
| 25 | frames | frame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hall | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 spindles | punct |
| 27 | spindles | spindle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 frames | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 skeins | punct |
| 29 | skeins | skein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 frames | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 wool | case |
| 31 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 skeins | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 patterns | punct |
| 33 | patterns | pattern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 wool | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 things | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 things | cc |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 things | det |
| 37 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 things | amod |
| 38 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | I | all necessary things | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Giant | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | run | past | a immense gallery | the hall | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | the hall | tapestry frames and spindles and skeins of wool and patterns | 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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