English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 54
And all these arches met in the middle of the roof, and just there, hung by a gold chain, an immense lamp made out of one big pearl hollowed out and quite transparent.
Who acts: arches, immense lamp · What happens: meet, hang, make out, hollow out · To what, where: middle, one big pearl
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 (arches, immense lamp), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 met | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 arches | det:predet |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 arches | det |
| 4 | arches | arch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 middle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 middle | det |
| 8 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 roof | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 roof | det |
| 11 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 middle | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 there | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 there | cc |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 there | advmod |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 met | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hung | punct |
| 17 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 met | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 chain | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 chain | det |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 chain | compound |
| 21 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hung | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lamp | punct |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 lamp | det |
| 24 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lamp | amod |
| 25 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 chain | appos |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 lamp | acl |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 pearl | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 pearl | case |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 pearl | nummod |
| 30 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 pearl | amod |
| 31 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obl |
| 32 | hollowed | hollow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 pearl | acl |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 hollowed | compound:prt |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 transparent | cc |
| 35 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 36 transparent | advmod |
| 36 | transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 hollowed | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | participle | all arches | the middle of the roof | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hang | participle | all arches not said here | by a gold chain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by chain=Location | ||||
| 3 | make out | participle | a immense lamp not said here | one big pearl | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pearl=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hollow out | participle | one big pearl not said here | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
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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