The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 166

Round her were numbers of Church dignitaries, and on either side were standing two rows of tapers, the largest of them as tall as a steeple, and the smallest as tiny as a Christmas-tree candle.

Who acts: Church dignitaries, smallest · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: two rows, side

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Church dignitaries, smallest), 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	_	4 numbers	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 numbers	nmod:poss
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 numbers	cop
4	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 dignitaries	case
6	Church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dignitaries	compound
7	dignitaries	dignitary	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 numbers	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 standing	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 standing	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 side	case
11	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	12 side	det
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 standing	obl
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 standing	aux
14	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 dignitaries	acl
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 rows	nummod
16	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 standing	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 tapers	case
18	tapers	taper	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rows	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 largest	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 largest	det
21	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 rows	acl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 largest	nmod
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 tall	advmod
25	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 largest	xcomp
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 steeple	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 steeple	det
28	steeple	steeple	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tall	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 tiny	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 tiny	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 smallest	det
32	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 tiny	nsubj
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 tiny	advmod
34	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 numbers	conj
35	as	as	ADP	_	40 candle	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 candle	det
37	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 candle	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 Christmas	punct
39	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 candle	compound
40	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tiny	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 numbers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past				round wife's numbers; of Church dignitaries	tree rules
2	stand	past · progressive	Church dignitaries not said here	two rows of tapers	either side		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent row=Theme on side=Destination
3	be		the smallest			as a Christmas tree candle	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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