The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 56
Flowers and fruit grew on every side, fountains plashed, and birds sang in the branches overhead, and when she reached a great avenue of trees and looked up to see where it would lead her, she found herself close to the palace of crystal.
Who acts: Flowers, fountains, birds, Graciosa, avenue · What happens: grow, plash, sing, reach, look up, see · To what, where: side, branches, great avenue, Graciosa · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flowers, fountains, birds, Graciosa), 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 | Flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fruit | cc |
| 3 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Flowers | conj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 side | det |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 plashed | punct |
| 9 | fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 plashed | nsubj |
| 10 | plashed | plash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sang | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sang | cc |
| 13 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sang | nsubj |
| 14 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 plashed | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 branches | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 branches | det |
| 17 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sang | obl |
| 18 | overhead | overhead | ADV | _ | 14 sang | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reached | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 reached | cc |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 reached | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 reached | nsubj |
| 23 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 avenue | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 avenue | amod |
| 26 | avenue | avenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reached | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 trees | case |
| 28 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 avenue | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 looked | cc |
| 30 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 reached | conj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 looked | compound:prt |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 see | mark |
| 33 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 looked | advcl |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 lead | advmod |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 lead | nsubj |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 lead | aux |
| 37 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 see | ccomp |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 lead | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 found | punct |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 found | nsubj |
| 41 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 42 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 found | obj |
| 43 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 found | xcomp |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 palace | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 palace | det |
| 46 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 close | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 crystal | case |
| 48 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 palace | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Flowers and fruit | every side | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | ||||
| 2 | plash | past | fountains | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | birds | the branches | overhead property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in branch=Location | |||
| 4 | reach | past | Graciosa | a great avenue of trees | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent avenue=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look up | past | Graciosa not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | Graciosa not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | lead | would | avenue | Graciosa | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 8 | find | past | Graciosa | Graciosa | close property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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