The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 41
Under the tree is a fountain, and by the fountain a marble slab, and on the slab a bowl of silver, with a silver chain.
What happens: be · To what, where: fountain, tree
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 tree | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fountain | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fountain | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fountain | det |
| 6 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 slab | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 slab | cc |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 fountain | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fountain | det |
| 11 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slab | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 slab | det |
| 13 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 slab | amod |
| 14 | slab | slab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fountain | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 slab | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 slab | cc |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 slab | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 slab | det |
| 19 | slab | slab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fountain | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bowl | det |
| 21 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 slab | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 silver | case |
| 23 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bowl | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 chain | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 chain | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 chain | det |
| 27 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 chain | compound |
| 28 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bowl | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fountain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a fountain and a marble slab and the slab | the tree | 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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