English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 50
The roof was supported by fine pillars, so large and lofty, that the pillars of a cathedral were as nothing to them.
Who acts: fine pillars, pillars · What happens: support, be · To what, where: roof, horses
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 (fine pillars, pillars), 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 roof | det |
| 2 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 supported | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 supported | aux:pass |
| 4 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 pillars | case |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pillars | amod |
| 7 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 supported | obl:agent |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 large | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 large | advmod |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 supported | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lofty | cc |
| 12 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 large | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 nothing | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 nothing | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pillars | det |
| 16 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 nothing | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 cathedral | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cathedral | det |
| 19 | cathedral | cathedral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pillars | nmod |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 nothing | cop |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 nothing | case |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 large | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 nothing | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 supported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | support | past · passive | fine pillars | the roof | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the pillars of a cathedral | horses = horse | as nothing | 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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