The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 93
This dwarf stands guarding an apple-tree, from which I am bound to pluck an apple.’
Who acts: This, I · What happens: stand, guard, be, pluck · To what, where: apple tree, apple
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, I), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 stands | nsubj |
| 2 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stands | amod |
| 3 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | guarding | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stands | xcomp |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 6 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 apple | punct |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guarding | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bound | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 bound | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bound | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bound | cop |
| 14 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stands | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 pluck | mark |
| 16 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 bound | csubj |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 apple | det |
| 18 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pluck | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 bound | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | This | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | guard | gerund | This not said here | a apple tree | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | bound property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pluck | to-infinitive | a apple | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient |
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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