The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 48
When my daughter was born nine bushels of flax were sown therein, and not one blade has sprung up.
What happens: bear, sow, not spring up · To what, where: daughter, nine bushels, one blade
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: 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 born | advmod |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 born | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 born | aux:pass |
| 5 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sown | advcl |
| 6 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 bushels | nummod |
| 7 | bushels | bushel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sown | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 flax | case |
| 9 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bushels | nmod |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sown | aux:pass |
| 11 | sown | sow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 11 sown | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sprung | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sprung | cc |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 sprung | advmod |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 blade | nummod |
| 17 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sprung | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sprung | aux |
| 19 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sown | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 sprung | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | my daughter | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | sow | past · passive | nine bushels of flax | therein property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not spring up | present · perfect · passive | one blade | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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