The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 26

Down went all the flat field, till there was a quarry between them a quarter of a mile deep, and the bottom filled with black water; and before the giants could get round it, the prince and princesses were inside the kingdom of the great magician, where the high thorny hedge opened of itself to everyone that he chose to let in.

Who acts: quarry, prince, high thorny hedge · What happens: go, be, fill, get, open, choose · To what, where: flat field, bottom, quarry, kingdom, everyone

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quarry, prince, high thorny hedge), 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	Down	down	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 field	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 field	det
5	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 field	amod
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 was	punct
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 was	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 quarry	det
12	quarry	quarry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
13	between	between	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 quarry	nmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 quarter	det
16	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 them	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 mile	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mile	det
19	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 quarter	nmod
20	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mile	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bottom	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bottom	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bottom	det
24	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 quarter	conj
25	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 bottom	acl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 water	case
27	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 water	amod
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 filled	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 get	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 get	cc
31	before	before	ADP	_	33 giants	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 giants	det
33	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 get	obl
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 get	aux
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	conj
36	round	round	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 get	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 prince	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 prince	det
40	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 kingdom	nsubj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 princesses	cc
42	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 prince	conj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 kingdom	cop
44	inside	inside	ADP	_	46 kingdom	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 kingdom	det
46	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	parataxis
47	of	of	ADP	_	50 magician	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 magician	det
49	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 magician	amod
50	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 kingdom	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 opened	punct
52	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	57 opened	advmod
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 hedge	det
54	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 hedge	amod
55	thorny	thorny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 hedge	amod
56	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 opened	nsubj
57	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 kingdom	parataxis
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 itself	case
59	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	57 opened	obl
60	to	to	ADP	_	61 everyone	case
61	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	57 opened	obl
62	that	that	SCONJ	_	64 chose	mark
63	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 chose	nsubj
64	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 everyone	acl:relcl
65	to	to	PART	_	66 let	mark
66	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 chose	xcomp
67	in	in	ADP	_	66 let	compound:prt
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past		all flat field				down property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	a quarry between horses			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fill	participle		the bottom not said here				with black water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument
4	get	could				quarry	before the giants		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round it=Destination
5	is	past	the prince and princesses			the kingdom		of the great magician	tree rules
6	open	past	the high thorny hedge		everyone			of quarry	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to everyone=Recipient
7	choose	past	prince						tree rules
8	let in	to-infinitive	prince not said here						vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=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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