The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 25

Besides that, there flourished some tufts of velvety grass, some scattered reeds, two plants of the yellow herb called tansy, four of a red flower, and a pretty white one; but the treasures of the rock consisted of three roots of garlic, which Maie had put in a cleft.

Who acts: yellow herb, treasures · What happens: flourish, call, consist, put, treasure · To what, where: that, tansy, three roots, cleft, rock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yellow herb, treasures), 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	Besides	besides	ADP	_	5 flourished	mark
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 flourished	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flourished	punct
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 flourished	advmod
5	flourished	flourish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 tufts	det
7	tufts	tuft	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flourished	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 grass	case
9	velvety	velvety	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grass	amod
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tufts	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reeds	punct
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 reeds	det
13	scattered	scatter	ADJ	_	14 reeds	amod
14	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tufts	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 plants	punct
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 plants	nummod
17	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 reeds	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 herb	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 herb	det
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 herb	amod
21	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 plants	nmod
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 herb	acl
23	tansy	tansy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 called	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 four	punct
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 reeds	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 flower	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 flower	det
28	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 flower	amod
29	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 four	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 one	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 one	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 one	det
33	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 one	amod
34	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 one	amod
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flourished	parataxis
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 consisted	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 consisted	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 treasures	det
39	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 consisted	nsubj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 rock	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 rock	det
42	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 treasures	nmod
43	consisted	consist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 flourished	conj
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 roots	case
45	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 roots	nummod
46	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 consisted	obl:agent
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 garlic	case
48	garlic	garlic	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 roots	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 put	punct
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 put	nsubj:pass
51	Maie	Maie	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 put	nsubj:pass
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 put	aux
53	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 roots	acl
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 cleft	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 cleft	det
56	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 put	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flourished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	flourish	participle · passive		that	there	tree rules
2	call	participle	the yellow herb not said here	tansy		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	consist	participle	the treasures of the rock			tree rules
4	put	past · perfect · passive		three roots of garlic	a cleft	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in cleft=Destination
5	treasure			the rock		nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/23/25/