The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 56

On the further side, the fairies, or korigans, as the people called them, had set up long long ago two rows of huge stones; indeed, so tall and heavy were they, that it seemed as if all the fairies in the world could not have placed them upright.

Who acts: people, fairies · What happens: call, set up, be, not place · To what, where: korigans, two rows, further side, fairies · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people, fairies), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 side	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 side	det
3	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 side	amod
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 seemed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 side	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fairies	det
7	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 seemed	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 korigans	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 korigans	cc
10	korigans	korigan	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fairies	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 called	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 called	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 people	det
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 called	nsubj
15	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fairies	parataxis
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 called	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 set	punct
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 set	aux
19	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 called	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 set	compound:prt
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 set	advmod
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 ago	advmod
23	ago	ago	ADV	_	24 two	advmod
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 rows	nummod
25	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 set	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 stones	case
27	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stones	amod
28	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rows	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 tall	punct
30	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	33 tall	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tall	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 tall	advmod
33	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 called	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 heavy	cc
35	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tall	conj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 seemed	cop
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 seemed	nsubj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 seemed	punct
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 seemed	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 seemed	nsubj
41	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 placed	mark
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 placed	mark
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 fairies	det:predet
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 fairies	det
46	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 placed	nsubj:pass
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 world	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 world	det
49	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 fairies	nmod
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 placed	aux
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 placed	advmod
52	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 placed	aux
53	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 seemed	xcomp
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 placed	obj
55	upright	upright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 placed	xcomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	the people	korigans = korigan			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	set up	past · perfect	the people not said here	two rows of huge stones		long property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	the fairies or korigans		the further side	seem property	tree rules
4	not place a condition, not said to happen	could · perfect · passive		all fairies in the world		upright property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme they=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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