The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 28
It was surrounded by a very high rampart, so high that even the giants could not touch the top of it.
Who acts: high rampart, giants · What happens: surround, not touch · To what, where: barking, top
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (high rampart, giants), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 3 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 rampart | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rampart | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 high | advmod |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rampart | amod |
| 8 | rampart | rampart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 high | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 high | advmod |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 surrounded | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 touch | mark |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 giants | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 giants | det |
| 15 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 touch | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 touch | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 touch | advmod |
| 18 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 high | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 top | det |
| 20 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 touch | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 top | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | past · passive | a high rampart | barking | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | not touch | could | the giants | the top of barking | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme top=Co-Theme |
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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