The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 13

Daisies and forget-me-nots fringed its brink, while tall hedges of roses and jasmine ringed it round, making the sweetest and daintiest bower imaginable.

Who acts: Daisies, tall hedges · What happens: forget, fringe, ring, make · To what, where: brink, breeze

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Daisies, tall hedges), 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	Daisies	daisy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fringed	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 forget	cc
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Daisies	conj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 me	punct
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Daisies	appos
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 me	punct
7	nots	not	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fringed	nsubj
8	fringed	fringe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brink	nmod:poss
10	brink	brink	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fringed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ringed	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 ringed	mark
13	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hedges	amod
14	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ringed	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 roses	case
16	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hedges	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 jasmine	cc
18	jasmine	jasmine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hedges	conj
19	ringed	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fringed	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ringed	obj
21	round	round	ADV	_	19 ringed	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 making	punct
23	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 ringed	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sweetest	det
25	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 making	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 daintiest	cc
27	daintiest	dainty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 sweetest	conj
28	bower	bow	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 imaginable	advmod
29	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 daintiest	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fringed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forget	infinitive	Daisies not said here			tree rules
2	fringe	past	Daisies	breeze's brink		tree rules
3	ring	past	tall hedges of roses and jasmine	breeze	round property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	make	gerund	tall hedges of roses and jasmine not said here		sweet property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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