The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 95

At last she saw before her a great plain, quite covered with all sorts of flowers, the scent of which seemed to her nicer than anything she had ever smelled before; a broad river of orange-flower water flowed round it and fountains of wine of every kind ran in all directions and made the prettiest little cascades and brooks.

Who acts: sheep, scent, broad river · What happens: see, cover, seem, smell, flow, run · To what, where: great plain, flower water, directions, prettiest little cascades, flowers

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep, scent, broad river), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 ran	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	acl:relcl
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plain	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plain	amod
9	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 covered	punct
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 covered	advmod
12	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 plain	acl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 sorts	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 sorts	det
15	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 covered	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 flowers	case
17	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sorts	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 scent	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 scent	det
20	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plain	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 seemed	nsubj
23	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 scent	acl:relcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 nicer	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 nicer	nmod:poss
26	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 seemed	xcomp
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 anything	case
28	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 nicer	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 smelled	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 smelled	aux
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 smelled	advmod
32	smelled	smell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 anything	acl:relcl
33	before	before	ADV	_	32 smelled	advmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 ran	punct
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 river	det
36	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 river	amod
37	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 ran	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	42 water	case
39	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 flower	amod
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 orange	punct
41	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 water	compound
42	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 river	nmod
43	flowed	flow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 water	acl
44	round	round	ADP	_	45 it	case
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 flowed	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 fountains	cc
47	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 river	conj
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 wine	case
49	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fountains	nmod
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 kind	case
51	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	52 kind	det
52	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 wine	nmod
53	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 directions	case
55	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	56 directions	det
56	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 ran	obl
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 made	cc
58	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 ran	conj
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 cascades	det
60	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	62 cascades	amod
61	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 cascades	amod
62	cascades	cascade	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 made	obj
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 brooks	cc
64	brooks	brook	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 cascades	conj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	53 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	sheep	a great plain and the scent		before Fairyland		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plain=Stimulus
2	cover	participle		a great plain and the scent not said here			with all sorts of flowers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sort=Theme
3	seem	past	the scent				nice property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	smell	past · perfect	sheep			ever	before property	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location
5	flow	participle		flower water not said here			round water	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	run	past	a broad river of flower water and fountains of wine of every kind		all directions			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory
7	make	past	a broad river of flower water and fountains of wine of every kind not said here	the prettiest little cascades and brooks				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cascade=Product
8	sort			flowers				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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