The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 89

‘In yonder troop where are four yellow standards.’

What happens: be · To what, where: four yellow standards

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 troop	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	4 troop	case
3	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	4 troop	advmod
4	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 standards	advmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 standards	cop
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 standards	nummod
8	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 standards	amod
9	standards	standard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 troop	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 troop	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 troop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		four yellow standards					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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