The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 21
But vast through the plain seemed, it did not take long to cross, and very soon the colt entered a sort of shady park in which was standing a single apple-tree, its branches bowed down to the ground with the weight of its fruit.
Who acts: it, colt, branches · What happens: seem, not take, cross, enter, stand, bow down · To what, where: plain, sort, single apple tree, shady park
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 (it, colt, branches), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 seemed | cc |
| 2 | vast | vast | ADV | _ | 6 seemed | advmod |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 plain | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 plain | det |
| 5 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seemed | obl |
| 6 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 take | advmod |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seemed | parataxis |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 take | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 cross | mark |
| 14 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 take | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 entered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 entered | cc |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 soon | advmod |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 entered | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 colt | det |
| 20 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 entered | nsubj |
| 21 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seemed | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 sort | det |
| 23 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 entered | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 park | case |
| 25 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 park | amod |
| 26 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sort | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 standing | obl |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 standing | aux |
| 30 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 park | acl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 tree | det |
| 32 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 tree | amod |
| 33 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tree | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 apple | punct |
| 35 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 standing | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 bowed | punct |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 branches | nmod:poss |
| 38 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 bowed | nsubj |
| 39 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 tree | conj |
| 40 | down | down | ADV | _ | 39 bowed | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 ground | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 ground | det |
| 43 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bowed | obl |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 weight | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 weight | det |
| 46 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bowed | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 fruit | case |
| 48 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 fruit | nmod:poss |
| 49 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 weight | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the plain | vast property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not take | past · do-support | it | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cross | to-infinitive | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | enter | past | the colt | a sort of shady park | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sort=Destination | |||
| 5 | stand | past · progressive | a single apple tree | shady park | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in which=Destination | ||||
| 6 | bow down | past | plain's branches | to the ground; with the weight of plain's fruit; down property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sort | shady park | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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