The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 92

Wandering on he arrived one day at a great plain, well watered and full of game; and in the very middle of it, close to a large river, was a grassy spot, very pleasant to make a home upon.

What happens: wonder, arrive, water, be, make · To what, where: great plain, grassy spot, middle, home

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. 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	Wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 arrived	nsubj
2	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 arrived	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	obl:unmarked
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 plain	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 plain	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plain	amod
10	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 watered	punct
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 watered	advmod
13	watered	water	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 plain	acl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 full	cc
15	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 watered	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 game	case
17	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 full	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 spot	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 spot	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 middle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 middle	det
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 middle	advmod
23	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 spot	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 middle	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 close	punct
27	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 middle	amod
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 river	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 river	det
30	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 river	amod
31	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 close	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 middle	punct
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 spot	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 spot	det
35	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 spot	amod
36	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 pleasant	punct
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 pleasant	advmod
39	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 spot	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 make	mark
41	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 pleasant	xcomp
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 home	det
43	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 make	obj
44	upon	upon	ADP	_	41 make	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	gerund					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	arrive	past		a great plain	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	water	participle	a great plain not said here			well property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	a grassy spot	the middle of middle			tree rules
5	be						tree rules
6	make	to-infinitive	a home				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset home=Product

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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