The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 81
Then the young couple returned by means of the movable stone, and brought up all the glass vessels filled with smoke.
Who acts: young couple · What happens: return, mean, bring up, fill · To what, where: young couple, 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 (young couple), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 means | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 couple | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 couple | amod |
| 4 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 couple | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 returned | obl |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 stone | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stone | det |
| 10 | movable | movable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stone | amod |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brought | cc |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 brought | compound:prt |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 vessels | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 vessels | det |
| 18 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 vessels | compound |
| 19 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 brought | obj |
| 20 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 vessels | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 smoke | case |
| 22 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 filled | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | participle | the young couple not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | the young couple | then | of the movable stone | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | bring up | past | the young couple not said here | all glass vessels | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fill | participle | all glass vessels not said here | with smoke | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with smoke=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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