The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 98

Happily for him, he began with the island that was nearest, and here in the forest he suddenly saw standing before him the iron tree, its boughs covered with shining leaves like the one he carried about him.

Who acts: king, island, forest · What happens: begin, be, see, stand, cover, carry · To what, where: forest, iron tree, boughs, one

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 (king, island, forest), 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	Happily	happily	ADV	_	6 began	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Happily	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Happily	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 island	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 island	det
9	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 nearest	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 nearest	cop
12	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 island	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 here	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 here	cc
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 began	parataxis
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 forest	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 forest	det
18	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 here	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
20	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	21 saw	advmod
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 forest	acl:relcl
22	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 saw	xcomp
23	before	before	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 standing	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tree	det
26	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tree	compound
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 standing	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 boughs	punct
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 boughs	nmod:poss
30	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tree	appos
31	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 boughs	acl
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 leaves	case
33	shining	shining	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 leaves	compound
34	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 covered	obl
35	like	like	ADP	_	37 one	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 one	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 leaves	nmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 carried	nsubj
39	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 one	acl:relcl
40	about	about	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 carried	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	king			with the island; happily property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with island=Subeventuality
2	is	past	the island			near property	tree rules
3	see	past	king	the forest not said here		suddenly property	tree rules
4	stand	gerund	the forest not said here	the iron tree	before king		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme before he=Destination
5	cover	participle		island's boughs not said here		with shining leaves like the one	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with leaf=Theme
6	carry	past	king	the one not said here		about cock	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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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