The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 24

The gardener was near the gate, watering the dill and parsley, the carrots and parsnips.

Who acts: gardener, gate · What happens: be, water · To what, where: gate, dill

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gardener, gate), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gate	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gate	cop
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 gate	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gate	det
6	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 watering	punct
8	watering	water	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 gate	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dill	det
10	dill	dill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watering	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 parsley	cc
12	parsley	parsley	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dill	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 carrots	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 carrots	det
15	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dill	appos
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 parsnips	cc
17	parsnips	parsnip	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 carrots	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the gardener			the gate			tree rules
2	water	gerund	the gate not said here	the dill and parsley					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent dill=Destination

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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