The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 66

Then outside the palace were gardens filled with rare flowers and fruits and singing birds, or if they desired to go further, a golden coach, painted with wreaths of forget-me-nots and lined with blue satin, awaited their orders.

Who acts: palace, birds · What happens: be, fill, sing, desire, go, paint · To what, where: gardens, birds, golden coach, orders

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 (palace, birds), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 singing	advmod
2	outside	outside	ADP	_	6 gardens	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 palace	det
4	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gardens	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gardens	cop
6	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Then	obl
7	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gardens	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 flowers	case
9	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flowers	amod
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 filled	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fruits	cc
12	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 flowers	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 singing	cc
14	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 singing	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 desired	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 desired	cc
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 desired	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 desired	nsubj
20	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 singing	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 go	mark
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 desired	xcomp
23	further	further	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 coach	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 coach	det
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 coach	amod
27	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 painted	punct
29	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 coach	acl
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 wreaths	case
31	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 painted	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 me	case
33	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 me	aux
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 me	punct
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 wreaths	nmod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 me	punct
37	nots	not	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 me	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 lined	cc
39	lined	line	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 me	conj
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 satin	case
41	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 satin	amod
42	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 lined	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 awaited	punct
44	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 desired	conj
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 orders	nmod:poss
46	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 awaited	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 singing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the palace			outside gardens	tree rules
2	fill	participle		gardens not said here		with rare flowers and fruits	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with flower=Instrument
3	sing speech: express	gerund		birds	then		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme
4	desire a condition, not said to happen	past	birds = bird				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	birds = bird not said here	a golden coach		further property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	paint	participle		a golden coach not said here		with wreaths of me	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wreath=Theme
7	line	participle				with blue satin	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with satin=Theme
8	await	past	birds = bird not said here	birds's orders			tree rules
9	order		birds = bird				nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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