The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 44
Its branches had put forth a glory of leaves, and there were grass and a spring underneath it, and flowers of many colours.
Who acts: leaves · What happens: put, be, glory · To what, where: branches, grass
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaves), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 branches | nmod:poss |
| 2 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 glory | det |
| 7 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 leaves | case |
| 9 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 glory | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 were | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 were | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 were | expl |
| 13 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 14 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 were | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spring | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 spring | det |
| 17 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grass | conj |
| 18 | underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spring | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 flowers | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 flowers | cc |
| 22 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 put | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 colours | case |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 colours | amod |
| 25 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 flowers | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · perfect · passive | crest's branches | flowers of many colours obl; forth property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset glory=Goal | ||||
| 2 | be | past | grass and a spring underneath crest | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot grass=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glory | leaves | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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