The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 136
An old gardener with a green coat walked about and wondered if the cucumbers were ripe.
Who acts: old gardener, cucumbers · What happens: walk, wonder, be
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 (old gardener, cucumbers), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 gardener | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gardener | amod |
| 3 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 coat | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 coat | det |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 coat | amod |
| 7 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gardener | nmod |
| 8 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 walked | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wondered | cc |
| 11 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 walked | conj |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 ripe | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cucumbers | det |
| 14 | cucumbers | cucumber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ripe | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ripe | cop |
| 16 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wondered | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | a old gardener with a green coat | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | a old gardener with a green coat not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the cucumbers | ripe 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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