The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 55
Here and there are scattered groves of fir trees, and small pebbles are so thick on the ground that you might almost take it for a beach.
Who acts: small pebbles, you · What happens: scatter, be, take · To what, where: groves, ground
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 (small pebbles, you), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 scattered | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 scattered | cc |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 scattered | expl |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 scattered | aux:pass |
| 5 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | groves | grove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scattered | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 trees | case |
| 8 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trees | compound |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 groves | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thick | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thick | cc |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pebbles | amod |
| 13 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thick | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 thick | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 thick | advmod |
| 16 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 scattered | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thick | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 take | obj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 take | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 take | aux |
| 23 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 24 take | advmod |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ground | acl:relcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 take | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 beach | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 beach | det |
| 28 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | present · passive | groves of fir trees | here; there | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: grove=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | small pebbles | the ground | thick property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | might | you | the ground | for a beach; almost property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument that=Theme it=Destination |
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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