The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 42

When they had left the plain behind them, Peronnik and his steed found themselves in a narrow valley in which was a grove of trees, full of all sorts of sweet-smelling things--roses of every colour, yellow broom, pink honeysuckle--while above them all towered a wonderful scarlet pansy whose face bore a strange expression.

Who acts: horses, Peronnik, face · What happens: leave, find, be, smell, tower, bear · To what, where: plain, horses, narrow valley, grove, wonderful scarlet pansy, strange expression

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 (horses, Peronnik, face), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 left	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	aux
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plain	det
6	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Peronnik	punct
10	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 found	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 steed	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 steed	nmod:poss
13	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Peronnik	conj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	parataxis
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 found	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 valley	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 valley	det
18	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 valley	amod
19	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 grove	obl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 grove	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 grove	det
24	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 valley	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 trees	case
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 grove	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 full	punct
28	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grove	amod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 sorts	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 sorts	det
31	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 full	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	36 things	case
33	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 smelling	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 sweet	punct
35	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 things	amod
36	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sorts	nmod
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 roses	punct
38	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 things	appos
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 colour	case
40	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	41 colour	det
41	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 roses	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 broom	punct
43	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 broom	amod
44	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 things	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 honeysuckle	punct
46	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 honeysuckle	amod
47	honeysuckle	honeysuckle	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 broom	conj
48	--	--	PUNCT	_	53 towered	punct
49	while	while	SCONJ	_	53 towered	mark
50	above	above	ADP	_	51 them	case
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 towered	obl
52	all	all	ADV	_	53 towered	advmod
53	towered	tower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 found	conj
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 pansy	det
55	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 pansy	amod
56	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 pansy	compound
57	pansy	pansy	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 towered	obj
58	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	59 face	nmod:poss
59	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 bore	nsubj
60	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 pansy	acl:relcl
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 expression	det
62	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 expression	amod
63	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 bore	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect	horses = horse	the plain		behind trees = tree	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent plain=Theme behind they=Location
2	find	past	Peronnik and Peronnik's steed	horses = horse	a narrow valley		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic
3	is a	past		a grove	a narrow valley	of trees	tree rules
4	smell	gerund					vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tower	past	Peronnik and Peronnik's steed not said here	a wonderful scarlet pansy		above horses = horse; all property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pansy=Theme
6	bear	past	face	a strange expression			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Patient
7	sort			smelling things yellow broom and pink honeysuckle			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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