--- title: Diamond was for all the world as wisht a looking creature as Facey--… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Diamond was for all the world as wisht a looking creature as Facey--nothing but a bag of bones, all the flesh gone, and half a rick of wood was gone too; but the fireplace was piled up three feet high with white wood-ashes. Who acts: Diamond, rick. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Diamond, rick), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:22:120 # text = Diamond was for all the world as wisht a looking creature as Facey--nothing but a bag of bones, all the flesh gone, and half a rick of wood was gone too; but the fireplace was piled up three feet high with white wood-ashes. 1 Diamond diamond NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 6 det:predet _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 wisht wisht NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 11 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Facey Facey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 -- -- PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 11 conj _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 25 det:predet _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 28 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 30 det:predet _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 rick rick NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 parataxis _ _ 35 too too ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 fireplace fireplace NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 piled pile VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 parataxis _ _ 42 up up ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 43 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 44 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl:unmarked _ _ 45 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 conj _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 47 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 48 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 49 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Diamond | | | | | for all world; as wisht; a looking creature as Facey but a bag of bones *nmod* | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | past | half rick of wood | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **pile up** | past · passive | | the fireplace | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination | | 5 | **rick** | | | wood | | | | | nom rick «state transitive»: of=patient | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/119/) - next →: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/121/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/)