The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 15

For miles round the country was bare, for the enemy had cut down every tree and burnt every blade of corn; and, idiot though he might be, Peronnik was able to grasp that inside the gates men were dying of famine.

Who acts: Peronnik, gates men · What happens: be, cut down, burnt, grasp, die · To what, where: tree, blade, idiot

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peronnik, gates men), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 miles	case
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bare	obl
3	round	round	ADP	_	5 country	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 country	det
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 miles	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bare	cop
7	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cut	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 enemy	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 enemy	det
11	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	obl
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cut	aux
13	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 bare	parataxis
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 cut	compound:prt
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 tree	det
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 burnt	cc
18	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 cut	conj
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 blade	det
20	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burnt	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 corn	case
22	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blade	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 idiot	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 idiot	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 and	punct
26	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bare	appos
27	though	though	SCONJ	_	34 able	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 able	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 able	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 able	cop
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 able	punct
32	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 able	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 able	cop
34	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 idiot	acl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 grasp	mark
36	grasp	grasp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 able	xcomp
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 dying	mark
38	inside	inside	ADP	_	40 gates	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 gates	det
40	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 men	compound
41	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 dying	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 dying	aux
43	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 grasp	advcl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 famine	case
45	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 dying	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			for miles round the country; bare property	tree rules
2	cut down	past · perfect		every tree	for the enemy	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent tree=Product for enemy=Asset
3	burnt	participle		every blade of corn		tree rules
4	is	might	Peronnik	idiot not said here	able property	tree rules
5	grasp	to-infinitive	Peronnik not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	die	past · progressive	gates men		of famine	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of famine=Causer

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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