The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 1

For four or five years the baby lived in the castle alone with his nurses, taking his airings on the broad terraces, which were surrounded by walls, with a moat beneath them, and only a drawbridge to connect them with the outer world.

Who acts: baby, walls · What happens: live, take, surround, connect · To what, where: drawbridge, castle, airings, broad terraces

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baby, walls), 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	For	for	ADP	_	5 years	case
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 five	cc
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 four	conj
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lived	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 baby	det
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 castle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 castle	det
11	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
12	alone	alone	ADV	_	11 castle	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 nurses	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 nurses	nmod:poss
15	nurses	nurse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 castle	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taking	punct
17	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 lived	advcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 airings	nmod:poss
19	airings	airing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 taking	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 terraces	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 terraces	det
22	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 terraces	amod
23	terraces	terrace	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 taking	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 surrounded	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 surrounded	nsubj:pass
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 surrounded	aux:pass
27	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 terraces	acl
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 walls	case
29	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 surrounded	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 moat	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 moat	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 moat	det
33	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taking	obl
34	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 moat	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 drawbridge	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 drawbridge	cc
38	only	only	ADV	_	40 drawbridge	advmod
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 drawbridge	det
40	drawbridge	drawbridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 connect	mark
42	connect	connect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 drawbridge	acl
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 connect	obj
44	with	with	ADP	_	47 world	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 world	det
46	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 world	amod
47	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 connect	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the baby	a drawbridge	the castle with baby's nurses	year		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location
2	take	gerund	the baby not said here	baby's airings	the broad terraces		with a moat beneath walls	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent airing=Theme on terrace=Destination
3	surround	past · passive	walls	the broad terraces				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme
4	connect	to-infinitive	the baby not said here	airings = airing			with the outer world	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient with world=Co-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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