The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 63
It was carpeted with flowers—roses, tulips, and clover; it had lovely lawns, and amongst them running water.
Who acts: plain, lawns · What happens: carpet, have, run · To what, where: plain, lovely lawns
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plain, lawns), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carpeted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carpeted | aux:pass |
| 3 | carpeted | carpet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 flowers | case |
| 5 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carpeted | obl |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 roses | punct |
| 7 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flowers | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tulips | punct |
| 9 | tulips | tulip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 roses | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 clover | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 clover | cc |
| 12 | clover | clover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roses | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carpeted | conj |
| 16 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lawns | amod |
| 17 | lawns | lawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 water | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 water | cc |
| 20 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 22 running | mark |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 running | nsubj |
| 22 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 water | amod |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carpeted | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carpeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carpet | past · passive | plain | with flowers and roses and tulips and clover; running water obl | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with flower=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | plain | lovely lawns | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lawn=Patient | ||||
| 3 | run | gerund | lawns = lawn | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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