The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 132
The wood had been on fire once, and now raspberry bushes had grown up, and there were raspberry bushes and raspberry bushes as far as the eye could see.
Who acts: wood, raspberry bushes, eye · What happens: be, grow up, see · To what, where: fire
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 (wood, raspberry bushes, eye), 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 | 2 wood | det |
| 2 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fire | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fire | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 fire | cop |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 fire | case |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 fire | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grown | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 grown | cc |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 grown | advmod |
| 11 | raspberry | raspberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bushes | compound |
| 12 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 grown | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 grown | aux |
| 14 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 fire | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 grown | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 were | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 were | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 were | expl |
| 19 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 see | advcl |
| 20 | raspberry | raspberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bushes | compound |
| 21 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 were | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bushes | cc |
| 23 | raspberry | raspberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bushes | compound |
| 24 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bushes | conj |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 far | advmod |
| 26 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 see | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 see | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 eye | det |
| 29 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 see | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 see | aux |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fire | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the wood | fire | once property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow up | past · perfect | raspberry bushes | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | raspberry bushes and raspberry bushes | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | could | the eye | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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