English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 45
These were rough arches made of a transparent rock, incrusted with sheepsilver and rock spar, and other bright stones.
Who acts: These · What happens: be, make, incrust · To what, where: rough arches, transparent rock
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 arches | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arches | cop |
| 3 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 arches | amod |
| 4 | arches | arch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 arches | acl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rock | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rock | det |
| 8 | transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rock | amod |
| 9 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 incrusted | punct |
| 11 | incrusted | incrust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 rock | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 sheepsilver | case |
| 13 | sheepsilver | sheepsilver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 incrusted | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spar | cc |
| 15 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spar | compound |
| 16 | spar | spar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sheepsilver | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stones | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stones | cc |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stones | amod |
| 20 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stones | amod |
| 21 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 arches | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | These | rough arches and other bright stones | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | rough arches and other bright stones not said here | of a transparent rock | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | incrust | participle | a transparent rock not said here | with sheepsilver and rock spar | 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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