The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 99
Some handsome pillars still stood amongst the heaps of ruins, and several rooms, which yet remained in fair preservation, gave evidence of former splendour.
Who acts: handsome pillars, several rooms · What happens: stand, remain, give, evidence · To what, where: heaps, several rooms, fair preservation, evidence, former splendour
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 (handsome pillars, several rooms), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 pillars | det |
| 2 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pillars | amod |
| 3 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 8 heaps | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heaps | det |
| 8 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ruins | case |
| 10 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 heaps | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gave | cc |
| 13 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rooms | amod |
| 14 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remained | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 remained | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 remained | advmod |
| 18 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 rooms | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 preservation | case |
| 20 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 preservation | amod |
| 21 | preservation | preservation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remained | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rooms | punct |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 24 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 splendour | case |
| 26 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 splendour | amod |
| 27 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 evidence | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | some handsome pillars | the heaps of ruins | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent amongst heap=Location | |||
| 2 | remain | participle · passive | several rooms | fair preservation | yet | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | |||
| 3 | give | past | several rooms | evidence of former splendour | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme | ||||
| 4 | evidence | former splendour | nom evidence «cognition 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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