The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 16

The man found no difficulty in making the royal garden produce flowers and fruit, and at the end of a year the park was not like the same place, and the King showered gifts upon his new servant.

Who acts: man, difficulty, park, King · What happens: find, make, not be, shower · To what, where: difficulty, royal produce flowers, end, gifts, new servant

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, difficulty, park, King), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 difficulty	det
5	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 making	mark
7	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 difficulty	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flowers	det
9	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 flowers	amod
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 produce	compound
11	produce	produce	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flowers	compound
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 making	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fruit	cc
14	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flowers	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 like	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 like	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 end	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 end	det
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 like	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 year	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 year	det
22	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 end	nmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 park	det
24	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 like	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 like	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 like	advmod
27	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 found	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 place	det
29	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 place	amod
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 like	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 showered	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 showered	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 King	det
34	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 showered	nsubj
35	showered	shower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	parataxis
36	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 showered	obj
37	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 servant	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 servant	nmod:poss
39	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 servant	amod
40	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 showered	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	the man	no difficulty				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Topic
2	make	gerund	no difficulty not said here	the royal produce flowers and fruit				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flower=Product
3	not is	past	the park			at the end of a year	like property	tree rules
4	shower	past	the King	gifts	king's new servant			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme upon servant=Destination

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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