The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 72

It was very hot, and they thought that they could not find a more comfortable place than under the branches of a large tree which grew by the bank of a river.

Who acts: tribe, fishes, large tree · What happens: be, think, not find, grow · To what, where: comfortable place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tribe, fishes, large tree), 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 hot	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 hot	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thought	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 find	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 find	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 find	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 find	advmod
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thought	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 place	det
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 comfortable	advmod
16	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 place	amod
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	obj
18	than	than	ADP	_	21 branches	case
19	under	under	ADP	_	21 branches	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 branches	det
21	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 place	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 tree	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tree	det
24	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tree	amod
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 branches	nmod
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 grew	nsubj
27	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 tree	acl:relcl
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 bank	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bank	det
30	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grew	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 river	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 river	det
33	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bank	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	tribe		hot property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	fishes = fish			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not find	could	fishes = fish	a comfortable place	than the branches of a large tree	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic
4	grow	past	a large tree		by the bank of a river	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by bank=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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