The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 87

And some of the fruit was still green, and some yellow.

Who acts: some · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 green	cc
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 green	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 fruit	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fruit	det
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 some	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 green	cop
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 green	advmod
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 yellow	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 yellow	cc
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 yellow	det
12	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 green	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 green	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	some				still	green property	tree rules
2	be		some not said here						tree rules

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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