The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 96

The plain was covered with the strangest trees, there were whole avenues where partridges, ready roasted, hung from every branch, or, if you preferred pheasants, quails, turkeys, or rabbits, you had only to turn to the right hand or to the left and you were sure to find them.

Who acts: whole avenues, partridges, you · What happens: cover, be, roast, hang, pheasant, turn · To what, where: plain, rabbits, branch, right hand

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 (whole avenues, partridges, you), 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 plain	det
2	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	aux:pass
4	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 trees	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trees	det
7	strangest	strange	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 trees	amod
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 covered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 were	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 were	expl
11	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	conj
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 avenues	amod
13	avenues	avenue	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 were	nsubj
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 avenues	nmod
15	partridges	partridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 where	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 roasted	punct
17	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 roasted	amod
18	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 partridges	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hung	punct
20	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 roasted	conj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 branch	case
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 branch	det
23	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hung	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pheasants	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 pheasants	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 or	punct
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 pheasants	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 pheasants	nsubj
29	preferred	preferred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pheasants	amod
30	pheasants	pheasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hung	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 quails	punct
32	quails	quail	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 pheasants	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 turkeys	punct
34	turkeys	turkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 pheasants	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 rabbits	punct
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 rabbits	cc
37	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 roasted	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 turn	punct
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 turn	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 turn	aux
41	only	only	ADV	_	43 turn	advmod
42	to	to	PART	_	43 turn	mark
43	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 roasted	conj
44	to	to	ADP	_	47 hand	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 hand	det
46	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 hand	amod
47	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 turn	obl
48	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 left	cc
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 left	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 left	det
51	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hand	conj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 sure	cc
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 sure	nsubj
54	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 sure	cop
55	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 turn	conj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 find	mark
57	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 sure	xcomp
58	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 find	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		the plain		with the strangest trees	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with tree=Theme
2	be	past	whole avenues		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	roast	participle	partridges not said here	rabbits			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	hang	participle	partridges not said here		every branch		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pheasant a condition, not said to happen		you				tree rules
6	turn	past	you		the right hand or the left		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to hand=Trajectory
7	is	past	you			sure property	tree rules
8	find	to-infinitive	you not said here	plain			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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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