The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 16

The tree was not hard to find, for the rising sun shone red on the trunk, which was five hundred feet from the ground to its first branch.

Who acts: tree, rising sun, trunk · What happens: not be, find, rise, shine, be · To what, where: trunk, hundred feet, ground

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 (tree, rising sun, trunk), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hard	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shone	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 shone	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
11	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sun	amod
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shone	nsubj
13	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	conj
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shone	xcomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 trunk	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 trunk	det
17	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shone	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 feet	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 feet	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 feet	cop
21	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 hundred	compound
22	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 feet	nummod
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 trunk	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 feet	nmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 branch	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 branch	nmod:poss
29	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 branch	amod
30	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shone	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the tree			hard property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	the tree not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	rise	gerund					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shine	past	the rising sun		the trunk and hundred feet	to tree's first branch; red property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on trunk=Location
5	is a	past	the trunk and hundred feet	hundred feet	the ground		tree rules

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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