The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 61

The wheat was yellow, the oats were green, the hay was dry and delicious to roll in, and from the old ruined house which nobody lived in, down to the edge of the canal, was a forest of great burdocks, so tall that a whole family of children might have dwelt in them and never have been found out.

Who acts: wheat, oats, hay, old ruined house, whole family · What happens: be, roll in, ruin, live in, dwell, not find out · To what, where: forest, old ruined house

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wheat, oats, hay, old ruined house), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wheat	det
2	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yellow	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 yellow	cop
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 green	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 oats	det
7	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 green	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 green	cop
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 yellow	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dry	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hay	det
12	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dry	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dry	cop
14	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 yellow	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 delicious	cc
16	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dry	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 roll	mark
18	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 delicious	xcomp
19	in	in	ADV	_	18 roll	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 forest	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 forest	cc
22	from	from	ADP	_	26 house	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 house	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 house	amod
25	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 house	amod
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 forest	obl
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 lived	nsubj
28	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 lived	nsubj
29	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 house	acl:relcl
30	in	in	ADV	_	29 lived	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 down	punct
32	down	down	ADV	_	29 lived	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 edge	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 edge	det
35	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 down	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 canal	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 canal	det
38	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 edge	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 house	punct
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 forest	cop
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 forest	det
42	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yellow	conj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 burdocks	case
44	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 burdocks	amod
45	burdocks	burdock	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 forest	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 tall	punct
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 tall	advmod
48	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 yellow	conj
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 dwelt	mark
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 family	det
51	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 family	amod
52	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 dwelt	nsubj
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 children	case
54	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 family	nmod
55	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 dwelt	aux
56	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	57 dwelt	aux
57	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 tall	advcl
58	in	in	ADP	_	59 them	case
59	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 dwelt	obl
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 found	cc
61	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	64 found	advmod
62	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 found	aux
63	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	64 found	aux:pass
64	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 yellow	conj
65	out	out	ADP	_	64 found	compound:prt
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 yellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wheat			yellow property	tree rules
2	is	past	the oats			green property	tree rules
3	is	past	the hay			dry property	tree rules
4	be		the hay not said here				tree rules
5	roll in	to-infinitive	the hay not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ruin	participle					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	live in	past	the old ruined house			down property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is a	past	the wheat not said here	a forest	the old ruined house	of great burdocks	tree rules
9	be		the wheat not said here				tree rules
10	dwell	might · perfect	a whole family of children			in oats = oat	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in they=Location
11	not find out	present · perfect · passive	the wheat not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»

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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