The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 22

Of course the people had taken great care to build their houses out of reach of the highest tide which might be driven on shore by a west wind, but on the very edge of the town there had sprung up a tree so large that half its boughs hung over the huts and the other half over the deep sea right under the cliff, where sharks loved to come and splash in the clear water.

Who acts: west wind, boughs, sharks · What happens: take, build, drive, spring up, hang, love · To what, where: great care, houses, reach, highest tide, shore, tree

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (west wind, boughs, sharks), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 people	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 taken	obl
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	aux
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 care	amod
8	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 build	mark
10	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 taken	advcl
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 houses	nmod:poss
12	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 build	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	15 reach	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 reach	case
15	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 build	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 tide	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tide	det
18	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 tide	amod
19	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reach	nmod
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 driven	nsubj:pass
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 driven	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 driven	aux:pass
23	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 tide	acl:relcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 shore	case
25	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 driven	obl
26	by	by	ADP	_	29 wind	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 wind	det
28	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wind	compound
29	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 driven	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sprung	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 sprung	cc
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 edge	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 edge	det
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 edge	advmod
35	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sprung	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 town	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 town	det
38	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 edge	nmod
39	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 town	advmod
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 sprung	aux
41	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 taken	conj
42	up	up	ADP	_	41 sprung	compound:prt
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 tree	det
44	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sprung	obj
45	so	so	ADV	_	46 large	advmod
46	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 sprung	advcl
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 hung	mark
48	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	50 boughs	det:predet
49	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 boughs	nmod:poss
50	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 hung	nsubj
51	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 large	advcl
52	over	over	ADP	_	54 huts	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 huts	det
54	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 hung	obl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 half	cc
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 half	det
57	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 half	amod
58	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	54 huts	conj
59	over	over	ADP	_	62 sea	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 sea	det
61	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 sea	amod
62	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 half	nmod
63	right	right	ADV	_	66 cliff	advmod
64	under	under	ADP	_	66 cliff	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 cliff	det
66	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 hung	obl
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 loved	punct
68	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	70 loved	advmod
69	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 loved	nsubj
70	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 cliff	acl:relcl
71	to	to	PART	_	72 come	mark
72	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	70 loved	xcomp
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	74 splash	cc
74	splash	splash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	72 come	conj
75	in	in	ADP	_	78 water	case
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	78 water	det
77	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	78 water	amod
78	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 splash	obl
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect		great care		of the people	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of people=Initial_Location
2	build	to-infinitive		people's houses	reach of the highest tide		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product
3	drive	might · passive	a west wind	the highest tide	shore		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on shore=Destination
4	spring up	past · perfect		a tree	the edge of the town		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme
5	hang	past	town's boughs		the huts and the other half over the deep sea	under the cliff	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over hut=Location
6	love	past	sharks				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	sharks not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	splash	infinitive	sharks not said here		the clear water		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location

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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