The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 105
Perhaps you remember the two beautiful mountain ash trees by the reddish-brown palings, and the high gate, and the garden with the beautiful barberry bushes which are always the first to become grown in spring, and which in summer are weighed down with their beautiful berries.
Who acts: you, beautiful barberry bushes · What happens: remember, be, become, grow, weigh down · To what, where: two beautiful ash trees
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, beautiful barberry bushes), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 3 remember | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 remember | nsubj |
| 3 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trees | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 trees | nummod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trees | amod |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ash | compound |
| 8 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trees | compound |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remember | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 palings | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palings | det |
| 12 | reddish | reddish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 brown | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 reddish | punct |
| 14 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 palings | amod |
| 15 | palings | paling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 trees | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gate | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gate | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gate | det |
| 19 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gate | amod |
| 20 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remember | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 garden | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 garden | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 garden | det |
| 24 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remember | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 bushes | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bushes | det |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bushes | amod |
| 28 | barberry | barberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bushes | compound |
| 29 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 garden | nmod |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 first | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 first | cop |
| 32 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 34 first | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 first | det |
| 34 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 bushes | acl:relcl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 become | mark |
| 36 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 first | acl |
| 37 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 become | xcomp |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 spring | case |
| 39 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 grown | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 weighed | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 weighed | cc |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 weighed | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 summer | case |
| 44 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 which | obl |
| 45 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 weighed | aux:pass |
| 46 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 remember | parataxis |
| 47 | down | down | ADP | _ | 46 weighed | compound:prt |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 berries | case |
| 49 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 berries | nmod:poss |
| 50 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 berries | amod |
| 51 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 weighed | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present | you | the two beautiful ash trees | by the brown palings; the garden with the beautiful barberry bushes obl; perhaps property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | the beautiful barberry bushes | always, first property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | grow | participle | spring | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | weigh down | present · passive | with bushes's beautiful berries | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |
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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