The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 35
In its centre was a large dew-drop, as big as the most lovely pearl.
What happens: be · To what, where: large dew drop, centre
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 centre | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 centre | nmod:poss |
| 3 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drop | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 drop | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 drop | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drop | amod |
| 7 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drop | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 dew | punct |
| 9 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 big | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 big | advmod |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drop | amod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 pearl | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pearl | det |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 lovely | advmod |
| 16 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pearl | amod |
| 17 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 big | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 drop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a large dew drop | flower's centre | 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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