The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 114

‘The ground is hard and covered with snow, they can’t plant me yet, and that is why I am staying here under cover till the spring comes.

Who acts: ground, doors, that, I, spring · What happens: be, cover, not plant, stay, come · To what, where: me, cover

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ground, doors, that, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 hard	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ground	det
3	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 covered	cc
7	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hard	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 snow	case
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 covered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 plant	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 plant	nsubj
12	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 plant	aux
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 plant	advmod
14	plant	plant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hard	parataxis
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 plant	obj
16	yet	yet	ADV	_	14 plant	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 why	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 why	cc
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 why	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 why	cop
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 hard	parataxis
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 staying	nsubj
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 staying	aux
24	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 why	advcl:relcl
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 staying	advmod
26	under	under	ADP	_	27 cover	case
27	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 staying	obl
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	31 comes	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 spring	det
30	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 comes	nsubj
31	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 staying	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the ground				hard property	tree rules
2	cover	participle	the ground not said here				with snow	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with snow=Theme
3	not plant	can	doors = door	me		yet		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	is	present	that				why property	tree rules
5	stay	present · progressive	I		cover; here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under cover=Location
6	come	present	the spring					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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