The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 88
Unseen by the Groac’h, Bellah hid it in a pocket of her green coat, and then followed her hostess into the garden, and to the pond which contained the fish, their sides shining with a thousand different colours.
Who acts: Bellah, pond, sides · What happens: hide, follow, contain, shine · To what, where: knife, pocket, hostess, garden, fish
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 (Bellah, pond, sides), 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 | Unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 Groac’h | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Groac’h | det |
| 4 | Groac’h | Groac'h | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Unseen | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hid | punct |
| 6 | Bellah | Bellah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hid | nsubj |
| 7 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Groac’h | acl:relcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hid | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 pocket | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pocket | det |
| 11 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hid | obl | ||
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 coat | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 coat | nmod:poss |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 coat | amod |
| 15 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pocket | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 followed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 followed | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 followed | advmod |
| 19 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hid | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hostess | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hostess | hostess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 followed | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 garden | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 garden | det |
| 24 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 followed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 pond | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 pond | cc |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 pond | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 pond | det |
| 29 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Groac’h | appos |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 contained | nsubj |
| 31 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 pond | acl:relcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 fish | det |
| 33 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 contained | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sides | punct |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 sides | nmod:poss |
| 36 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 fish | conj |
| 37 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 sides | acl |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 colours | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 thousand | det |
| 40 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 colours | nummod |
| 41 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 colours | amod |
| 42 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 shining | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unseen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | Bellah | knife | a pocket of Groac’h's green coat | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in pocket=Location | |||
| 2 | follow | past | Bellah not said here | Groac’h's hostess | the garden | then | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hostess=Theme into garden=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | contain | past | the pond | the fish and gardens's sides | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fish=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shine | gerund | gardens's sides not said here | with thousand different colours | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with colour=Theme |
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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