The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 12
Beside the loch thou seest over yonder there grows a fir tree.
Who acts: thou, loch · What happens: see over, grow · To what, where: loch, fir tree
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, loch), 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 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 3 loch | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 loch | det |
| 3 | loch | loch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grows | nsubj |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 seest | nsubj |
| 5 | seest | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 loch | acl:relcl |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 there | advmod |
| 7 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 8 there | advmod |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 seest | advmod |
| 9 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 11 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grows | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see over | present | thou | the loch not said here | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loch=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | grow | present | the loch | a fir tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |
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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