The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 17
Behind the palace a large garden stretched away to the foot of some hills, and more than one river flowed through.
Who acts: one river · What happens: stretch away, flow · To what, where: large garden, palace
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one river), 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 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 3 palace | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 palace | det |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stretched | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 garden | amod |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 stretched | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 foot | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 foot | det |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stretched | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hills | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 hills | det |
| 14 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 foot | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 flowed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 flowed | cc |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 19 one | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 more | fixed |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 river | nummod |
| 20 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 flowed | nsubj |
| 21 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stretched | conj |
| 22 | through | through | ADV | _ | 21 flowed | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch away | participle · passive | a large garden | the palace | to the foot of some hills result; away property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to foot=Result | |||
| 2 | flow | past | one river | through property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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