The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 134

There stood the tall birch tree with its drooping leaves; at the top sat the old crow, and at its foot crept the gardener’s black cat.

What happens: stand, droop, sit, creep · To what, where: tall birch tree, old crow, top, black cat, foot

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: 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 stood	expl
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tree	amod
5	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	compound
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 leaves	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 leaves	nmod:poss
9	drooping	droop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 leaves	amod
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tree	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 top	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 top	det
14	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	obl
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 crow	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 crow	amod
18	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 crept	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 crept	cc
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 foot	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 foot	nmod:poss
23	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 crept	obl
24	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 gardener	det
26	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cat	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 gardener	case
28	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cat	amod
29	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 crept	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the tall birch tree	there	with tree's drooping leaves	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
2	droop	gerund				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	past	the old crow	the top		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent crow=Theme at top=Location
4	creep	past	the gardener's black cat	tree's foot		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cat=Theme

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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