The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 17
At last the forest was left behind, and they came out on a wide plain where the air blew fresh and strong.
Who acts: things, air · What happens: leave behind, come out, blow · To what, where: last forest, wide plain
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, air), 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 | ADP | _ | 4 forest | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 forest | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 forest | det |
| 4 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | aux:pass |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 6 left | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 plain | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 plain | det |
| 15 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 plain | amod |
| 16 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 blew | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 air | det |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blew | nsubj |
| 20 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 plain | acl:relcl |
| 21 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 blew | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 strong | cc |
| 23 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fresh | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave behind | past · passive | the last forest | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: at forest=Location | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | things = thing | a wide plain | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | blow | past | the air | fresh property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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