The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 14
Upstairs and downstairs he wandered, through lofty halls, splendid rooms, and lovely little boudoirs, everything beautifully arranged, and all kept in the most perfect order.
Who acts: treasure, lovely little boudoirs · What happens: wander, arrange, keep · To what, where: lofty halls, all, perfect order
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treasure, lovely little boudoirs), 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 | Upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 5 wandered | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wandered | cc |
| 3 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 5 wandered | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wandered | nsubj |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 halls | punct |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 halls | case |
| 8 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 halls | amod |
| 9 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wandered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rooms | punct |
| 11 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rooms | amod |
| 12 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 halls | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 arranged | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 arranged | cc |
| 15 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 boudoirs | amod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 boudoirs | amod |
| 17 | boudoirs | boudoir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 arranged | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 everything | punct |
| 19 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 boudoirs | conj |
| 20 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 21 arranged | advmod |
| 21 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wandered | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 kept | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 kept | cc |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wandered | parataxis |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 order | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 order | det |
| 28 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 29 perfect | advmod |
| 29 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 order | amod |
| 30 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kept | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | treasure | lofty halls and splendid rooms | downstairs, upstairs property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hall=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | arrange | past | lovely little boudoirs | beautifully property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | keep | participle · passive | all | the perfect order | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in order=Location |
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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