The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 106

Behind the garden there is a hedge with tall aspens which rustle in the morning wind, behind the hedge is a road, behind the road is a wood, and behind the wood the wide world.

Who acts: hedge, tall aspens · What happens: be, rustle · To what, where: garden, morning wind, road, wood

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 (hedge, tall aspens), 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	Behind	behind	ADP	_	3 garden	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 garden	det
3	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	obl
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hedge	det
7	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	nsubj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 aspens	case
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 aspens	amod
10	aspens	aspen	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hedge	nmod
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 rustle	nsubj
12	rustle	rustle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 aspens	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 wind	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wind	det
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wind	compound
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rustle	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 road	punct
18	behind	behind	ADP	_	23 road	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hedge	det
20	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 road	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 road	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 road	det
23	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rustle	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wood	punct
25	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 road	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 road	det
27	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wood	obl
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 wood	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 wood	det
30	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rustle	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 wood	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 wood	cc
33	behind	behind	ADP	_	35 wood	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wood	det
35	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 world	det
37	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 world	amod
38	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wood	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	present	a hedge with tall aspens		the garden; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind garden=Location
2	rustle	present	tall aspens		the morning wind	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location
3	is	present	the hedge		a road	tree rules
4	is a	present		a wood	the road	tree rules

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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