The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 92
A towering citadel whose foot kept firm the wrinkled earth, and whose battlements touched the blue heaven.
Who acts: towering citadel, battlements · What happens: tower, keep, wrinkle, touch · To what, where: blue heaven
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 (towering citadel, battlements), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 citadel | det |
| 2 | towering | tower | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 citadel | amod |
| 3 | citadel | citadel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 foot | nmod:poss |
| 5 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | nsubj |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kept | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 earth | det |
| 9 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 earth | amod |
| 10 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 firm | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 touched | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 touched | cc |
| 13 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 14 battlements | nmod:poss |
| 14 | battlements | battlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 touched | nsubj |
| 15 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kept | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 heaven | det |
| 17 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 heaven | amod |
| 18 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 touched | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tower | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | keep | past | a towering citadel | firm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wrinkle | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | touch | past | battlements | the blue heaven | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heaven=Co-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 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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