The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 34
Round the walls were several niches, in each of which stood glass vessels filled with some bright-coloured spirit or bluish smoke.
Who acts: walls, each · What happens: be, stand, fill · To what, where: glass vessels
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls, each), 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 | Round | round | ADP | _ | 6 niches | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 walls | det |
| 3 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 niches | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 niches | cop |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 niches | amod |
| 6 | niches | niche | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stood | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 niches | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 each | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 each | nmod |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vessels | compound |
| 14 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stood | obj |
| 15 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 vessels | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 spirit | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 spirit | det |
| 18 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 coloured | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 bright | punct |
| 20 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 spirit | amod |
| 21 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 filled | obl |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 smoke | cc |
| 23 | bluish | bluish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 smoke | amod |
| 24 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spirit | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the walls | round several niches | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | each | glass vessels | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vessel=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle | glass vessels not said here | with some coloured spirit or bluish smoke | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with spirit=Instrument |
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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