The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 154

There were the roses on the leads; it was summer, warm, glorious summer.

Who acts: roses, sweetheart · What happens: be · To what, where: summer

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roses, sweetheart), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roses	det
4	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 leads	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 leads	det
7	leads	lead	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roses	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 summer	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 summer	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 summer	cop
11	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 warm	punct
13	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 summer	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 summer	punct
15	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 summer	amod
16	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 warm	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	the roses on the leads			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	sweetheart	summer					tree rules

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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