The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 28

I have several fields belonging to me, and if they are kept well watered they bear wonderful crops.'

Who acts: I, several fields, fields · What happens: have, belong, keep, water, bear · To what, where: several fields, me, fields, wonderful crops

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, several fields, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fields	amod
4	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 fields	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 belonging	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bear	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bear	cc
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 kept	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	nsubj:pass
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 kept	aux:pass
13	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 bear	advcl
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 watered	advmod
15	watered	water	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 kept	xcomp
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bear	nsubj
17	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
18	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 crops	amod
19	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bear	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	several fields			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient
2	belong	gerund	several fields not said here		me		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	keep a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		fields = field			tree rules
4	water	participle	fields = field not said here			well property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	bear	present	fields = field	wonderful crops			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Patient

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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