The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 63
In the middle of the forest was a wide open space surrounded by great cedar trees, and this was supposed to be the fairy’s favourite spot.
What happens: be, surround, suppose · To what, where: wide open space, middle, this, favourite spot
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 space | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 forest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forest | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 space | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 space | det |
| 9 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 space | amod |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 space | amod |
| 11 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 space | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 trees | case |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 trees | amod |
| 15 | cedar | cedar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trees | compound |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 supposed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 supposed | cc |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 supposed | aux:pass |
| 21 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 space | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 spot | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 spot | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fairy | det |
| 25 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 spot | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 fairy | case |
| 27 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 spot | amod |
| 28 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 supposed | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 space | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a wide open space | the middle of the forest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | surround | participle | a wide open space not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | suppose | past · passive | this | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | the fairy's favourite spot | tree rules |
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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