The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 114
Costly spices grew on the shores: the pepper plant, the cinnamon tree, ginger, saffron; the coffee plant and the tea plant.
Who acts: Costly spices · What happens: grow · To what, where: coffee plant, shores
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 (Costly spices), 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 | Costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spices | amod |
| 2 | spices | spice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 shores | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shores | det |
| 6 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grew | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 plant | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 plant | det |
| 9 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plant | compound |
| 10 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shores | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tree | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 13 | cinnamon | cinnamon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | compound |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plant | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ginger | punct |
| 16 | ginger | ginger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plant | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saffron | punct |
| 18 | saffron | saffron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plant | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 plant | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 plant | det |
| 21 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 plant | compound |
| 22 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 plant | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 plant | det |
| 25 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 plant | compound |
| 26 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 plant | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Costly spices | the coffee plant and the tea plant | the shores | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/114/