The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 123
They anchored at the mouth of a great river where the shores were as green as the greenest velvet.
Who acts: eyes, shores · What happens: anchor, be · To what, where: mouth
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 (eyes, shores), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 anchored | nsubj |
| 2 | anchored | anchor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 mouth | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mouth | det |
| 5 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 anchored | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 river | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 river | amod |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mouth | nmod |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 green | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shores | det |
| 12 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 green | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 green | cop |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 green | advmod |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 river | amod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 velvet | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 velvet | det |
| 18 | greenest | green | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 velvet | amod |
| 19 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 green | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 anchored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anchor | past | eyes = eye | the mouth of a great river | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the shores | as the greenest velvet; green property | 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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