English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 55
And in the middle of this was a big, huge carbuncle, which kept spinning round and round, and this was what gave light by its rays to the whole hall, which seemed as if the setting sun was shining on it.
Who acts: this, big huge carbuncle, whole hall, setting sun, middle · What happens: be, keep, spin, seem, shine, ray · To what, where: big huge carbuncle, middle
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 (this, big huge carbuncle, whole hall, setting sun), 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 | _ | 4 middle | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 middle | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 middle | det |
| 4 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 carbuncle | mark |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 carbuncle | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 carbuncle | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 carbuncle | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 carbuncle | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 big | punct |
| 11 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 carbuncle | amod |
| 12 | carbuncle | carbuncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 middle | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kept | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 kept | nsubj |
| 15 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 carbuncle | parataxis |
| 16 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 kept | xcomp |
| 17 | round | round | ADV | _ | 16 spinning | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 round | cc |
| 19 | round | round | ADV | _ | 17 round | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gave | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gave | cc |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 gave | cop |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 gave | nsubj |
| 25 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 kept | conj |
| 26 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gave | obj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 rays | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 rays | nmod:poss |
| 29 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gave | obl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 hall | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hall | det |
| 32 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 hall | amod |
| 33 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gave | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 seemed | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 seemed | nsubj |
| 36 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 hall | acl:relcl |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 shining | mark |
| 38 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 43 shining | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 sun | det |
| 40 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sun | compound |
| 41 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 shining | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 shining | aux |
| 43 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 seemed | xcomp |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 it | case |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 shining | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 middle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | a big huge carbuncle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | a big huge carbuncle | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | spin | gerund | a big huge carbuncle not said here | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | this | by middle's rays; to the whole hall; give property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | seem | past | the whole hall | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | shine a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | the setting sun | middle | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location | ||||
| 7 | ray | middle | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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