The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 24
Presently in his course he came to a great field of castor-oil plants, ten or twelve feet high, big and bushy, but quite green and soft.
Who acts: Moti · What happens: come · To what, where: course
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moti), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 course | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 course | nmod:poss |
| 4 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 field | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 field | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 field | amod |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 plants | case |
| 12 | castor | castor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 oil | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 castor | punct |
| 14 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 plants | compound |
| 15 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 field | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 feet | punct |
| 17 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 feet | nummod |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 twelve | cc |
| 19 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 ten | conj |
| 20 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 plants | conj |
| 21 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 plants | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 big | punct |
| 23 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 high | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bushy | cc |
| 25 | bushy | bushy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 high | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 green | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 green | cc |
| 28 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 29 green | advmod |
| 29 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 came | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 soft | cc |
| 31 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 green | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Moti | Moti's course | to a great field of oil plants and ten feet; presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_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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