The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 65

There was a tree such as he had never seen before; its branches were alike, but it bore flowers and fruit of a thousand kinds.

Who acts: tree, branches, wonder · What happens: not see, be, bear · To what, where: flowers

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 (tree, branches, wonder), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 alike	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tree	amod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 seen	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seen	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 seen	advmod
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 was	advcl
11	before	before	ADV	_	10 seen	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 alike	punct
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 branches	nmod:poss
14	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 alike	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 alike	cop
16	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bore	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 bore	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bore	nsubj
20	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 alike	conj
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bore	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fruit	cc
23	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flowers	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 kinds	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 thousand	det
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 kinds	nummod
27	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fruit	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 alike	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect	tree		before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	wonder's branches		alike property	tree rules
3	bear	past	wonder	flowers and fruit of thousand kinds		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=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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