The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 35
It was summer time, when the pea shells grew long and green in the garden.
Who acts: little, pea shells · What happens: be, grow · To what, where: summer time, garden
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 (little, pea shells), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 3 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grew | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 grew | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shells | det |
| 8 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shells | compound |
| 9 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | conj |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grew | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 green | cc |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 long | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 garden | det |
| 16 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | little | summer time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | the pea shells | the garden | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=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.
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