The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 105

‘When first I came hither,’ said he, ‘the plain was bare save for one oak sapling, which grew up to be an oak with a hundred branches.

Who acts: I, race, plain, one oak sapling · What happens: come, say, be, grow up · To what, where: bare save, oak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, race, plain, one oak sapling), 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	_	5 came	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 first	advmod
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 came	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
6	hither	hither	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 save	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 save	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 plain	det
14	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 save	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 save	cop
16	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 save	amod
17	save	save	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 sapling	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 sapling	nummod
20	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sapling	compound
21	sapling	sapling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 save	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 grew	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 grew	nsubj
24	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sapling	acl:relcl
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 grew	compound:prt
26	to	to	PART	_	29 oak	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 oak	cop
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 oak	det
29	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grew	advcl
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 branches	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 hundred	det
32	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 branches	nummod
33	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 oak	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	I		first, hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	race			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the plain	bare save	for one oak sapling	tree rules
4	grow up	past	one oak sapling			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	to-infinitive	one oak sapling not said here	a oak	with hundred branches	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/39/105/