The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 133
Every bush was weighted to the ground with the largest, dark red, ripe raspberries, such a wealth of berries as two little berry pickers had never found before!
What happens: weight, not find · To what, where: bush, two little berry pickers
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: 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 bush | det |
| 2 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weighted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 weighted | aux:pass |
| 4 | weighted | weight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weighted | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 raspberries | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 raspberries | det |
| 10 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 raspberries | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 largest | punct |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 raspberries | amod |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 raspberries | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 red | punct |
| 15 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 raspberries | amod |
| 16 | raspberries | raspberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 weighted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wealth | punct |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 wealth | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wealth | det |
| 20 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 raspberries | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 berries | case |
| 22 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wealth | nmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 found | mark |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 pickers | nummod |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pickers | amod |
| 26 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pickers | compound |
| 27 | pickers | picker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 found | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 found | aux |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 found | advmod |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 weighted | advcl |
| 31 | before | before | ADV | _ | 30 found | advmod |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 weighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weight | past · passive | every bush | to the ground; with the largest dark red ripe raspberries and such wealth of berries | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with raspberry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not find | past · perfect · passive | two little berry pickers | before property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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