The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 87

This he took back to the place where they should have been feeding, for here he had noticed a high rock, with a patch of green grass in the middle and two or three thick bushes growing on the edge.

Who acts: This, bells, son, two thick bushes · What happens: take back, feed, notice, grow · To what, where: high rock, edge

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, bells, son, two thick bushes), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 took	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 place	det
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 feeding	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 feeding	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 feeding	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 feeding	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 feeding	aux
13	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 place	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 noticed	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 here	case
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 noticed	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 noticed	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 noticed	aux
19	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 took	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 rock	det
21	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rock	amod
22	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 noticed	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 patch	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 patch	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 patch	det
26	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 noticed	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 grass	case
28	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 grass	amod
29	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 patch	nmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 middle	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 middle	det
32	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grass	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 bushes	cc
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 bushes	nummod
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 three	cc
36	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 two	conj
37	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 bushes	amod
38	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 grass	conj
39	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 bushes	acl
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 edge	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 edge	det
42	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 growing	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take back	past	This			to the place result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result
2	feed	should · perfect · progressive	bells = bell				vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	notice	past · perfect	son	a high rock		with a patch of green grass in the middle and two thick bushes	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus
4	grow	gerund	two thick bushes not said here		the edge		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on edge=Location

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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