The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 22
The cattle are thriving; the fields are thick with corn, and soon they will be ripe for harvest.”
Who acts: cattle, fields · What happens: thrive, be
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cattle, fields), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cattle | det |
| 2 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thriving | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thriving | aux |
| 4 | thriving | thrive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 thick | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fields | det |
| 7 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thick | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 thick | cop |
| 9 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thriving | ccomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 corn | case |
| 11 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thick | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ripe | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ripe | cc |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 ripe | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ripe | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 ripe | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ripe | cop |
| 18 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thick | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 harvest | case |
| 20 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ripe | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thick | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thriving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thrive | present · progressive | the cattle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the fields | with corn; thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | future | fields = field | for harvest; ripe, soon property | 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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