The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 125

They grew in a garden, and he went up to the gate and found it a slab of beautifully worked marble, and that near it there lay sleeping, with his head on a stone, a negro whose face was so black that it made darkness round him.

Who acts: trees, tee, that, sleeping, slab · What happens: grow, go up, find, work, lie, sleep · To what, where: garden, gate, darkness

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, tee, that, sleeping), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 garden	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grew	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	parataxis
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 went	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 gate	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gate	det
13	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 found	cc
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 found	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 slab	det
18	slab	slab	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 marble	case
20	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	21 worked	advmod
21	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 marble	amod
22	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 slab	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lay	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lay	cc
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 lay	nsubj
26	near	near	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 that	nmod
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 lay	advmod
29	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	conj
30	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 black	csubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 head	punct
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 head	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 head	nmod:poss
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sleeping	obl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 stone	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 stone	det
37	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 head	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 negro	punct
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 negro	det
40	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 head	conj
41	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	42 face	nmod:poss
42	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 negro	nmod
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 black	cop
44	so	so	ADV	_	45 black	advmod
45	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lay	obl
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 made	mark
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 made	nsubj
48	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 black	advcl
49	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 made	obj
50	round	round	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 made	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	trees = tree		a garden		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location
2	go up	past	tee			to the gate	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	find	past	tee not said here	gate			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme slab=Attribute
4	work	participle				beautifully property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lie	past	that		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sleep	gerund				with tee's head on a stone and a negro a negro face's face	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	sleeping			black property	tree rules
8	make	past	slab	darkness		round tee	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material darkness=Product

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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