The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 97

At last they reached a vast meadow, gay with all sorts of flowers; a deep river surrounded it, and many little brooks murmured softly under the shady trees, where it was always cool and fresh.

Who acts: last, many little brooks, brook · What happens: reach, surround, murmur, be, sort · To what, where: vast meadow, deep river, shady trees, flowers

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, many little brooks, brook), 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	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reached	nsubj
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 meadow	det
6	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 meadow	amod
7	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gay	punct
9	gay	gay	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meadow	appos
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 sorts	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 sorts	det
12	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gay	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 flowers	case
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sorts	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 surrounded	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 river	det
17	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 river	amod
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 surrounded	nsubj:pass
19	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reached	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 surrounded	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 murmured	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 murmured	cc
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 brooks	amod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 brooks	amod
25	brooks	brook	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 murmured	nsubj
26	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	conj
27	softly	softly	ADV	_	26 murmured	advmod
28	under	under	ADP	_	31 trees	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 trees	det
30	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 trees	amod
31	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 murmured	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 cool	punct
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 cool	advmod
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 cool	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 cool	cop
36	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	37 cool	advmod
37	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 trees	parataxis
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 fresh	cc
39	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 cool	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	last	a vast meadow			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent meadow=Theme
2	surround	participle · passive		a deep river			tree rules
3	murmur speech: other	past	many little brooks		the shady trees	softly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location
4	is	past	brook			always, cool property	tree rules
5	be		brook not said here				tree rules
6	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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