The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 78
The first thing is to place the glass box which contains my castle on this large stone.’
Who acts: first thing, glass box · What happens: be, contain · To what, where: place, castle, large stone
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 (first thing, glass box), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 place | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 place | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 place | mark |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 box | det |
| 8 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 box | compound |
| 9 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 place | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 contains | nsubj |
| 11 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 box | acl:relcl |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 castle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 contains | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 stone | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 stone | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stone | amod |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 contains | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 place | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the first thing | place | the glass box nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | contain | present | the glass box | my castle | this large stone | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot castle=Theme |
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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