The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 6
Round the palace were great gardens full of all the plants that grow in the sea, with diamonds for flowers.
Who acts: great gardens, plants · What happens: be, grow · To what, where: sea
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great gardens, plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:3024): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Round | round | ADP | _ | 3 palace | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 palace | det |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 palace | cop |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gardens | amod |
| 6 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 palace | nsubj |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gardens | amod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 plants | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 plants | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 plants | det |
| 11 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 full | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 grow | nsubj |
| 13 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 plants | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grow | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 diamonds | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 diamonds | case |
| 19 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gardens | nmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 flowers | case |
| 21 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 diamonds | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 palace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | great gardens with diamonds for flowers | round the palace | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | all plants | the sea | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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