English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 52
Why, of diamonds and emeralds, and all manner of precious stones.
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 diamonds | punct |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 diamonds | case |
| 4 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Why | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 emeralds | cc |
| 6 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 diamonds | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 manner | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 manner | cc |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 manner | det |
| 10 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 diamonds | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 stones | case |
| 12 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stones | amod |
| 13 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 manner | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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