The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 104
Tall palm trees grew in long rows on the shore and bore coconuts in their top branches.
Who acts: Tall palm trees · What happens: grow, bear · To what, where: long rows, coconuts, top branches
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tall palm trees), 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 | Tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 trees | amod |
| 2 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trees | compound |
| 3 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 rows | case |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rows | amod |
| 7 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 shore | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shore | det |
| 10 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bore | cc |
| 12 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 13 | coconuts | coconut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bore | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 branches | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 branches | nmod:poss |
| 16 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 branches | amod |
| 17 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bore | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Tall palm trees | long rows | on the shore | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in row=Location | |||
| 2 | bear | past | Tall palm trees not said here | coconuts | coconuts's top branches | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coconut=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 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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