The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 113
At one end he perceived a small skiff, painted blue and shaped like a swan, lying under a clump of yellow broom.
Who acts: Houarn · What happens: perceive, paint, shape, lie · To what, where: small skiff, one end, clump
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Houarn), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 end | nummod |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perceived | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 perceived | nsubj |
| 5 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 skiff | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 skiff | amod |
| 8 | skiff | skiff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perceived | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 painted | punct |
| 10 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 skiff | acl |
| 11 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 painted | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shaped | cc |
| 13 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 painted | conj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 swan | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 swan | det |
| 16 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shaped | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lying | punct |
| 18 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 shaped | advcl |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 clump | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 clump | det |
| 21 | clump | clump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lying | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 broom | case |
| 23 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 broom | amod |
| 24 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 clump | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | Houarn | a small skiff | at one end | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer skiff=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | paint | participle | a small skiff not said here | blue property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | shape | participle | like a swan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | a clump of yellow broom | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under clump=Location |
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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