The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 4
Four white trefoils sprang up where she trod, and therefore was she called Olwen.
Who acts: Four white trefoils, maiden · What happens: spring up, tread, call · To what, where: maiden · 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 (Four white trefoils, maiden), 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 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 trefoils | nummod |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 trefoils | amod |
| 3 | trefoils | trefoil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 sprang | compound:prt |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 trod | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 trod | nsubj |
| 8 | trod | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 called | cc |
| 11 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 14 called | advmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 called | aux:pass |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 called | nsubj |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sprang | parataxis |
| 15 | Olwen | Olwen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | Four white trefoils | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tread | past | maiden | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call | past · passive | maiden | therefore property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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