The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 129

There were plenty of bilberries and elder berries, but no raspberries.

Who acts: plenty · What happens: be

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 (plenty), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 bilberries	case
5	bilberries	bilberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plenty	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 berries	cc
7	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 berries	amod
8	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bilberries	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 raspberries	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 raspberries	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 raspberries	det
12	raspberries	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	plenty of bilberries and elder berries			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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