The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 66
Now there was a little garden round the enchanted house, in which grew twelve tall lilies.
Who acts: little garden · What happens: be, enchant, grow · To what, where: twelve tall lilies
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little garden), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 garden | amod |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 9 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 house | amod |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grew | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 grew | nsubj |
| 14 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 was | conj |
| 15 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 lilies | nummod |
| 16 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lilies | amod |
| 17 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 grew | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a little garden | there | now | round the enchanted house | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | grow | past | twelve tall lilies | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lily=Theme |
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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