The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 109

‘When first I came hither,’ said he, ‘the valley was a wooded glen; then a race of men came and rooted it up.

Who acts: I, valley, race, men · What happens: come, say, wood, be, root up, race · To what, where: wooded glen, valley · 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, valley, race, men), 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 glen	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 glen	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 valley	det
14	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 glen	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 glen	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 glen	det
17	wooded	wood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 glen	amod
18	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 he	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 came	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 race	det
22	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 men	case
24	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 race	nmod
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 rooted	cc
27	rooted	root	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 came	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 rooted	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 rooted	compound:prt
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	I			first, hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	wood	participle					tree rules
4	is a	past	the valley	a wooded glen			tree rules
5	come	past	a race of men		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	root up	past	a race of men not said here	valley			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	race		men				nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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