The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 157
It was adorned with splendid carved pillars; a number of coloured lamps replaced the light of day.
Who acts: number · What happens: adorn, carve, replace, light · To what, where: survey, light, day
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 adorned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 adorned | aux:pass |
| 3 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 pillars | case |
| 5 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pillars | amod |
| 6 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 pillars | amod |
| 7 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 adorned | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 replaced | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 number | det |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replaced | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 lamps | case |
| 12 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lamps | amod |
| 13 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 number | nmod |
| 14 | replaced | replace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 adorned | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 light | det |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replaced | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 light | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 adorned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adorn | past · passive | survey | with splendid carved pillars | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with pillar=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carve | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | replace | past | a number of coloured lamps | the light of day | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme light=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | light | day | nom light «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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