The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 158
It was in a capital position, for it could get sun, and there was enough air, and all around grew many tall companions, both pines and firs.
Who acts: tree, enough air · What happens: be, get, grow · To what, where: capital position, sun, many tall companions
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 (tree, enough air), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 position | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 position | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 position | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 position | det |
| 5 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 position | compound |
| 6 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 position | parataxis |
| 12 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 was | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | advcl |
| 17 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 air | amod |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grew | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 grew | cc |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 grew | advmod |
| 22 | around | around | ADV | _ | 23 grew | advmod |
| 23 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 position | conj |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 companions | amod |
| 25 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 companions | amod |
| 26 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 grew | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 pines | punct |
| 28 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 29 pines | cc:preconj |
| 29 | pines | pine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 companions | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 firs | cc |
| 31 | firs | fir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 companions | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 position | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | tree | a capital position | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | could | tree | sun | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | be | past | enough air | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | tree not said here | many tall companions both pines and firs | all, around property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location companion=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 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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