The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 46

In the distance was a mountain down whose sides waters slowly coursed--these were the tears of unhappy lovers--and nearer the gate were trees without either fruit of flowers, while nettles and brambles covered the ground.

Who acts: these, nettles · What happens: be, course, cover · To what, where: mountain, tears, nearer trees, ground

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 (these, nettles), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 distance	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 distance	det
3	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mountain	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mountain	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mountain	det
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coursed	nsubj:pass
7	down	down	ADP	_	9 sides	case
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	9 sides	nmod:poss
9	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mountain	nmod
10	waters	water	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 coursed	aux
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	12 coursed	advmod
12	coursed	course	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 tears	punct
14	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 tears	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tears	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tears	det
17	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 coursed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 lovers	case
19	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lovers	amod
20	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tears	nmod
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 trees	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 nearer	cc
23	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 trees	amod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 gate	det
25	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 nearer	obj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 trees	cop
27	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 coursed	obl
28	without	without	ADP	_	30 fruit	case
29	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	30 fruit	det
30	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trees	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 flowers	case
32	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fruit	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 covered	punct
34	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 covered	mark
35	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 covered	nsubj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 brambles	cc
37	brambles	bramble	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 nettles	conj
38	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 coursed	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 ground	det
40	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 covered	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 coursed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a mountain	in the distance; down a mountain's sides	tree rules
2	course	present · passive		a mountain	slowly property	tree rules
3	is a	past	these	the tears	of unhappy lovers	tree rules
4	is a	past		nearer trees	without either fruit of flowers	tree rules
5	cover	past	nettles and brambles	the ground		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Destination

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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