The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 48

The sky above them was not blue, but like rays of pure gold, and the stars looked twice their usual size, and far more brilliant than on our earth.

Who acts: sky, stars · What happens: not be, look, ray · To what, where: usual size, pure gold

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 (sky, stars), 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	2 sky	det
2	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blue	nsubj
3	above	above	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sky	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 blue	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 blue	advmod
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rays	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 rays	cc
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 rays	case
11	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 blue	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 gold	case
13	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gold	amod
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rays	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 looked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 looked	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stars	det
18	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 looked	nsubj
19	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 blue	parataxis
20	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 size	advmod
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 size	nmod:poss
22	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 size	amod
23	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looked	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 brilliant	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 brilliant	cc
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 more	advmod
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 brilliant	advmod
28	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 looked	conj
29	than	than	ADP	_	32 earth	case
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 earth	case
31	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 earth	nmod:poss
32	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brilliant	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 blue	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the sky above feathers		like rays of pure gold; blue property	tree rules
2	look	past	the stars	gold's usual size		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme size=Attribute
3	ray			pure gold		nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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