The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 26
Rock walls sheltered them on the north side, and the sun shone on them on the south.
Who acts: Rock walls, sun · What happens: shelter, shine · To what, where: tufts, north side, south
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 (Rock walls, sun), 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 | Rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walls | compound |
| 2 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sheltered | nsubj |
| 3 | sheltered | shelter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sheltered | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 side | det |
| 7 | north | north | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 side | amod |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sheltered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shone | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shone | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sun | det |
| 12 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shone | nsubj |
| 13 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sheltered | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shone | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 south | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 south | det |
| 18 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shone | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sheltered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shelter | past | Rock walls | tufts = tuft | the north side | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient on side=Location | |||
| 2 | shine | participle | the sun | the south | on tufts = tuft | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=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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