The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 76

I have sought all over the land for the roots you desire; but they are gathered in, and lie drying in musty cellars, and the fields are bare and desolate, for below in the valley winter reigns, only here in your presence spring is held fast, and wherever your foot is set the gay flowers bloom.

Who acts: I, you, fields, gay flowers · What happens: seek, desire, gather, lie, dry, be · To what, where: land, roots, musty cellars, presence spring, foot

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 (I, you, fields, gay flowers), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sought	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sought	aux
3	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 land	advmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 land	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 land	det
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sought	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 roots	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 roots	det
10	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sought	obl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 desire	nsubj
12	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 roots	acl:relcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 gathered	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 gathered	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gathered	nsubj:pass
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 gathered	aux:pass
17	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sought	parataxis
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 gathered	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lie	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lie	cc
21	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 gathered	conj
22	drying	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 lie	xcomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 cellars	case
24	musty	musty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cellars	amod
25	cellars	cellar	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 drying	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bare	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bare	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fields	det
29	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bare	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 bare	cop
31	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sought	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 desolate	cc
33	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 bare	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 below	punct
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 below	case
36	below	below	ADV	_	3 sought	advmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	41 reigns	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 reigns	det
39	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 reigns	compound
40	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 reigns	compound
41	reigns	reign	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sought	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 here	punct
43	only	only	ADV	_	44 here	advmod
44	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sought	advmod
45	in	in	SCONJ	_	50 held	mark
46	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 spring	nmod:poss
47	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 spring	compound
48	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 held	nsubj:pass
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 held	aux:pass
50	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 here	advcl
51	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	50 held	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 set	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 set	cc
54	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	58 set	advmod
55	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 foot	nmod:poss
56	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 set	nsubj:pass
57	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 set	aux:pass
58	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sought	conj
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 flowers	det
60	gay	gay	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 flowers	compound
61	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 bloom	nsubj
62	bloom	bloom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 set	advcl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seek	present · perfect	I		the land; here	for the roots; in the valley winter reigns; below property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent over land=Location for root=Theme
2	desire	present	you	the roots not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot root=Theme
3	gather	present · passive		roots = root			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	lie	present					tree rules
5	dry	gerund			musty cellars		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	is	present	the fields			bare property	tree rules
7	desolate	infinitive	the fields not said here				tree rules
8	hold	present · passive		your presence spring		fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
9	set	present · passive		your foot		wherever property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
10	bloom	present	the gay flowers				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=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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