The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 12

But, notwithstanding, in Ballinskellig Bay there is a neat bit of ground, well fitted for diversion, and down from it, towards the water, is a clean smooth piece of strand, the dead image of a calm summer’s sea on a moonlight night, with just the curl of the small waves upon it.

Who acts: Ballinskellig Bay, notwithstanding · What happens: notwithstand, be, fit, image · To what, where: neat bit, clean smooth piece, sea

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ballinskellig Bay, notwithstanding), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 notwithstanding	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 notwithstanding	punct
3	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 piece	csubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Bay	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 Bay	case
6	Ballinskellig	Ballinskellig	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Bay	compound
7	Bay	Bay	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 is	nsubj
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 notwithstanding	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bit	det
11	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bit	amod
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 is	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 ground	case
14	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bit	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fitted	punct
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 fitted	advmod
17	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 bit	acl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 diversion	case
19	diversion	diversion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fitted	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 down	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 down	cc
22	down	down	ADV	_	3 notwithstanding	advmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 down	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 water	punct
26	towards	towards	ADP	_	28 water	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 water	det
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 notwithstanding	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 notwithstanding	punct
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 piece	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 piece	det
32	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 piece	amod
33	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 piece	amod
34	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 strand	case
36	strand	strand	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 piece	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 image	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 image	det
39	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 image	amod
40	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 piece	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	46 sea	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 summer	det
43	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 summer	amod
44	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sea	nmod:poss
45	’s	's	PART	_	44 summer	case
46	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 image	nmod
47	on	on	ADP	_	50 night	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 night	det
49	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 night	compound
50	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 image	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 curl	punct
52	with	with	ADP	_	55 curl	case
53	just	just	ADV	_	55 curl	advmod
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 curl	det
55	curl	curl	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 piece	conj
56	of	of	ADP	_	59 waves	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 waves	det
58	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 waves	amod
59	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 curl	nmod
60	upon	upon	ADP	_	61 it	case
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 waves	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 piece	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notwithstand	gerund					towards the water; down property	tree rules
2	be	present	Ballinskellig Bay		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fit	participle		a neat bit of ground not said here			for diversion; well property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	notwithstanding	a clean smooth piece and the dead image of a calm summer's sea on a moonlight night and the curl of the small waves upon bit			of strand	tree rules
5	image			a calm summer's sea		on a moonlight night		nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient on=obl

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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