The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 63

In a beautiful island that lies in the southern seas, where chains of gay orchids bind the trees together, and the days and nights are equally long and nearly equally hot, there once lived a family of seven sisters.

Who acts: beautiful island, chains, days · What happens: lie, bind, be, live · To what, where: southern seas, trees, family, beautiful island

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful island, chains, days), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 island	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 island	det
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 island	amod
4	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lived	obl
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lies	nsubj
6	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 island	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 seas	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 seas	det
9	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 seas	amod
10	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lies	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bind	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 bind	advmod
13	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bind	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 orchids	case
15	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 orchids	amod
16	orchids	orchid	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 chains	nmod
17	bind	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 seas	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trees	det
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bind	obj
20	together	together	ADV	_	17 bind	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 long	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 long	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 days	det
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 long	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 nights	cc
26	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 days	conj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 long	cop
28	equally	equally	ADV	_	29 long	advmod
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 island	amod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hot	cc
31	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	32 equally	advmod
32	equally	equally	ADV	_	33 hot	advmod
33	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 long	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 island	punct
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 lived	expl
36	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	37 lived	advmod
37	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 family	det
39	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lived	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 sisters	case
41	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 sisters	nummod
42	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 family	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	present	a beautiful island		the southern seas		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sea=Location
2	bind	present	chains of gay orchids	the trees		together property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
3	is	present	the days and nights			equally, long property	tree rules
4	be		the days and nights not said here			equally property	tree rules
5	live	past		a family of seven sisters	a beautiful island; there	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme family=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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