The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 99
The richest pearls beyond compare Are stored up in thy realm below, And Ocean’s cows so sleek and fair Feed on the grass in thy green meadow.
What happens: store up · To what, where: richest pearls, realm
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pearls | det |
| 2 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 pearls | amod |
| 3 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stored | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 5 compare | case |
| 5 | compare | compare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pearls | nmod |
| 6 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stored | aux:pass |
| 7 | stored | store | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 stored | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 realm | case |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 realm | nmod:poss |
| 11 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stored | obl |
| 12 | below | below | ADV | _ | 11 realm | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sleek | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sleek | cc |
| 15 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 cows | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Ocean | case |
| 17 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sleek | nsubj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 sleek | advmod |
| 19 | sleek | sleek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stored | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Feed | cc |
| 21 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Feed | amod |
| 22 | Feed | feed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sleek | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 grass | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 grass | det |
| 25 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Feed | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 meadow | case |
| 27 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 meadow | nmod:poss |
| 28 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 meadow | amod |
| 29 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stored | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | store up | present · passive | the richest pearls beyond compare | thy realm | in thy green meadow | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in realm=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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