The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 108

This earth, dried up by a constant rain of sulphur and fire, produces nothing, yet I hear that YOUR bed is made of sweet smelling herbs.

Who acts: earth, I · What happens: dry up, produce, hear, make, smell, rain · To what, where: earth, nothing, bed, sulphur

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, I), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 earth	det
2	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 produces	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dried	punct
4	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 earth	acl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 dried	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 rain	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rain	det
8	constant	constant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rain	amod
9	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dried	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 sulphur	case
11	sulphur	sulphur	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rain	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fire	cc
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sulphur	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 earth	punct
15	produces	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 produces	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hear	punct
18	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	20 hear	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 hear	nsubj
20	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 produces	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 made	mark
22	YOUR	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 bed	nmod:poss
23	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	nsubj:pass
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 made	aux:pass
25	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 hear	advcl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 herbs	case
27	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 herbs	amod
28	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 herbs	amod
29	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 made	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 produces	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dry up	participle		this earth not said here	by a constant rain of sulphur and fire	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	produce	present	this earth	nothing		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Result
3	hear	present	I			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	make	present · passive		YOUR bed	of sweet smelling herbs	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
5	smell	gerund				vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	rain			sulphur and fire		nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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