The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 37
The garden was a very Eden, with running water amongst its lawns, with flowers and the lament of doves and the jug-jug of nightingales.
Who acts: garden, Eden · What happens: be, run, lament · To what, where: Eden, water, lawns, doves
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 (garden, Eden), 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 garden | det |
| 2 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Eden | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Eden | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Eden | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 Eden | advmod |
| 6 | Eden | Eden | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 running | punct |
| 8 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 9 running | mark |
| 9 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Eden | acl |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 running | obj |
| 11 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 13 lawns | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lawns | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lawns | lawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 running | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flowers | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 flowers | case |
| 16 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lawns | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lament | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lament | det |
| 19 | lament | lament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lawns | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 doves | case |
| 21 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lament | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 jug | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 jug | det |
| 24 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 jug | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 jug | punct |
| 26 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lament | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 nightingales | case |
| 28 | nightingales | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 jug | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Eden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the garden | a Eden | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | a Eden not said here | water | garden's lawns and flowers and the lament of doves and the jug jug of nightingales | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme amongst lawn=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | lament | doves | nom lament «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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