The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 12
She went out and cropped the seaweed which grew in great abundance near the shore, and always kept in good condition.
Who acts: cow, seaweed · What happens: go out, crop, grow, keep · To what, where: seaweed, great abundance, good condition
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cow, seaweed), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cropped | cc |
| 5 | cropped | crop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 seaweed | det |
| 7 | seaweed | seaweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cropped | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seaweed | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 abundance | case |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 abundance | amod |
| 12 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | obl |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 shore | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shore | det |
| 15 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kept | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 kept | cc |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 kept | advmod |
| 19 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 condition | case |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 condition | amod |
| 22 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kept | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | cow | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | crop | past | cow not said here | the seaweed | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seaweed=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | the seaweed | great abundance | near the shore | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in abundance=Location | |||
| 4 | keep | participle | good condition | always property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in condition=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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