The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 23

Among the mountain pastures and valleys that lie in the centre of France there dwelt a mischievous kind of spirit, whose delight it was to play tricks on everybody, and particularly on the shepherds and the cowboys.

Who acts: valleys, kind, mischievous kind · What happens: lie, dwell, be, delight · To what, where: mischievous kind, centre, everybody

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (valleys, kind, mischievous kind), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	4 pastures	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pastures	det
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pastures	compound
4	pastures	pasture	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 valleys	cc
6	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pastures	conj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lie	nsubj
8	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 valleys	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 centre	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 centre	det
11	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dwelt	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 France	case
13	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 centre	nmod
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 dwelt	advmod
15	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lie	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 kind	det
17	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 kind	amod
18	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dwelt	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 spirit	case
20	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kind	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 delight	punct
22	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	23 delight	nmod:poss
23	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kind	appos
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 play	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 play	cop
26	to	to	PART	_	27 play	mark
27	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 delight	acl:relcl
28	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 play	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 everybody	case
30	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 play	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 shepherds	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 shepherds	cc
33	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	36 shepherds	advmod
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 shepherds	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 shepherds	det
36	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pastures	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 cowboys	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cowboys	det
39	cowboys	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 shepherds	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pastures	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	present	valleys				tree rules
2	dwell	past	valleys not said here	a mischievous kind of spirit	the centre of France; there		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme kind=Location
3	is	past	kind		everybody	play property	tree rules
4	delight		a mischievous kind of spirit				nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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