The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 11
And Manawyddan looked, and saw corn growing in the fields, and cows and sheep grazing on the hill-side, and huts for the people to dwell in.
Who acts: Manawyddan, corn, sheep, cows · What happens: look, see, grow, graze, dwell in · To what, where: corn, fields
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Manawyddan, corn, sheep, cows), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 looked | cc |
| 2 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 7 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 corn | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 fields | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fields | det |
| 11 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 growing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dwell | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 dwell | cc |
| 14 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 dwell | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sheep | cc |
| 16 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cows | conj |
| 17 | grazing | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 sheep | acl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 side | det |
| 20 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 side | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 hill | punct |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grazing | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 huts | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 huts | cc |
| 25 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cows | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 people | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 people | det |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 huts | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 dwell | mark |
| 30 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 looked | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 dwell | compound:prt |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Manawyddan | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Manawyddan not said here | corn | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer corn=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | corn not said here | the fields | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location | ||||
| 4 | graze | gerund | sheep not said here | on the hill side | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on side=Patient | ||||
| 5 | dwell in | to-infinitive | cows and sheep and huts for the people | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/11/