The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 148
At last they reached a great plain overgrown with bushes, and when they looked around them, they saw, as much as they could in the darkness, that they were among the same beautiful raspberry bushes from which they had picked their baskets and their aprons full.
Who acts: last, birds · What happens: reach, overgrow, look, see, be, pick · To what, where: great plain, much, birds, same beautiful raspberry bushes
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 (last, birds), 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 | At | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 plain | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plain | amod |
| 7 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 8 | overgrown | overgrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 plain | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 bushes | case |
| 10 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 overgrown | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 looked | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | advcl |
| 16 | around | around | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 much | punct |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 much | advmod |
| 23 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 saw | obj |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 could | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 could | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 much | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 darkness | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 darkness | det |
| 29 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 could | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 bushes | punct |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 bushes | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 bushes | nsubj |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 bushes | cop |
| 34 | among | among | ADP | _ | 39 bushes | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 bushes | det |
| 36 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 bushes | amod |
| 37 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 bushes | amod |
| 38 | raspberry | raspberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bushes | compound |
| 39 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 saw | obj |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 which | case |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 picked | obl |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 picked | aux |
| 44 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 bushes | acl:relcl |
| 45 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 baskets | nmod:poss |
| 46 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 picked | obj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 aprons | cc |
| 48 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 aprons | nmod:poss |
| 49 | aprons | apron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 baskets | conj |
| 50 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 aprons | amod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | last | a great plain | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent plain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | overgrow | participle | a great plain not said here | with bushes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | past | birds = bird | around chimneys = chimney | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | birds = bird | much | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | past | birds = bird | among the same beautiful raspberry bushes | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | pick | past · perfect · passive | birds = bird | the same beautiful raspberry bushes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary basket=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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