The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 35

There was a sky and a sun over them, and a great high wall, covered with ivy, rose before them, and was so high they could not see to the top of it; and there was an arch in this wall, and the bottom of the draw-well was inside the arch.

Who acts: sky, crowns · What happens: be, cover, not see · To what, where: great high wall, arch

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 (sky, crowns), 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sky	det
4	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sun	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sky	conj
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sun	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 covered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 covered	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 wall	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wall	amod
14	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wall	amod
15	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 covered	nsubj:pass
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 covered	punct
17	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 ivy	case
19	ivy	ivy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 covered	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rose	punct
21	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ivy	conj
22	before	before	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ivy	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 high	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 high	cc
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 high	cop
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 high	advmod
28	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	parataxis
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 see	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 see	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 see	advmod
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 high	parataxis
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 top	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 top	det
35	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 see	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 top	nmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	59 arch	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 was	cc
40	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	41 was	expl
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 arch	cop
42	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 arch	det
43	arch	arch	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 was	nsubj
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 wall	case
45	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 wall	det
46	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 arch	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 bottom	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 bottom	cc
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 bottom	det
50	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 arch	conj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 draw	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 draw	det
53	draw	draw	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 bottom	nmod
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	59 arch	punct
55	well	well	INTJ	_	59 arch	discourse
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 arch	cop
57	inside	inside	ADP	_	59 arch	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 arch	det
59	arch	arch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a sky and a sun over crowns		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cover	participle · passive		a great high wall		with ivy before crowns and rose	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ivy=Theme
3	is	past				high property	tree rules
4	not see	could	crowns = crown			to the top of wall	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past			the arch		tree rules

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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