The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 66

On the other side of the hedge stretched a great field of maize as far as the eye could reach, and the yellow ears swayed to and fro in the gentle breeze like a rippling sea of gold.

Who acts: eye, yellow ears · What happens: stretch, reach, sway, fro, ripple · To what, where: great field, other side, gentle breeze

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye, yellow ears), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 side	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 side	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 side	amod
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stretched	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 hedge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hedge	det
7	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 side	nmod
8	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 field	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 field	amod
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stretched	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 maize	case
13	maize	maize	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 field	nmod
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 far	advmod
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 stretched	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 reach	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eye	det
18	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reach	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 reach	aux
20	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 far	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 swayed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 swayed	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ears	det
24	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ears	amod
25	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 swayed	nsubj
26	swayed	sway	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stretched	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	26 swayed	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fro	cc
29	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 swayed	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 breeze	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 breeze	det
32	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 breeze	amod
33	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fro	obl
34	like	like	ADP	_	37 sea	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 sea	det
36	rippling	ripple	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 sea	amod
37	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 breeze	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 gold	case
39	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sea	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stretch	past		a great field of maize	the other side of the hedge	far property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent field=Patient
2	reach	could	the eye				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sway	past	the yellow ears				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fro	infinitive	the yellow ears not said here		the gentle breeze like a rippling sea of gold		tree rules
5	ripple	gerund					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=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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