The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 54

Around it stretches a desolate moor, where no corn can be grown, and the grass is so coarse that no beast grows fat on it.

Who acts: sea, grass, beast · What happens: stretch, desolate, grow, be · To what, where: desolate moor, corn, fat, sea

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, grass, beast), 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	Around	around	ADP	_	3 stretches	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stretches	nsubj
3	stretches	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 moor	det
5	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 moor	compound
6	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretches	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grown	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 grown	advmod
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 corn	det
10	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grown	nsubj:pass
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 grown	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 grown	aux:pass
13	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 moor	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 coarse	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 coarse	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grass	det
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 coarse	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 coarse	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 coarse	advmod
20	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stretches	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 grows	mark
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 beast	det
23	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grows	nsubj
24	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 coarse	advcl
25	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grows	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 grows	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stretches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stretch	present	sea	a desolate moor			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent moor=Patient
2	desolate	infinitive					tree rules
3	grow	can · passive		no corn			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	present	the grass			coarse property	tree rules
5	grow	present	no beast	fat	sea		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fat=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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