The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 37

Everything was quite tiny, but so beautifully and carefully finished that it might have been the work of an accomplished artist.

Who acts: Everything, curiosity · What happens: be, finish, accomplish · To what, where: work

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 (Everything, curiosity), 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 tiny	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tiny	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 tiny	advmod
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 finished	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 finished	cc
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 beautifully	advmod
8	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	11 finished	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 finished	cc
10	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	11 finished	advmod
11	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tiny	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 work	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 work	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 work	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 work	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 work	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 work	det
18	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 finished	advcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 artist	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 artist	det
21	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 artist	amod
22	artist	artist	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 work	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tiny	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Everything		tiny property	tree rules
2	finish	past	Everything not said here		beautifully, carefully property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is a	might · perfect	curiosity	the work	of a accomplished artist	tree rules
4	accomplish	participle				vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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