The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 79

‘Out in the king’s garden,’ said she, ‘under the great oak that stands on the left hand, just as one goes out from the castle, is a little bush, rather brown than green, with hairy leaves and long spikes.

Who acts: garden, great oak, one · What happens: say, stand, go out, be · To what, where: left hand, castle, great oak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden, great oak, one), 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	_	7 garden	punct
2	Out	out	ADV	_	7 garden	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 garden	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 king	case
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 garden	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 garden	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 brown	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 she	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	40 brown	punct
14	under	under	ADP	_	17 oak	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 oak	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 oak	amod
17	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 brown	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 stands	nsubj
19	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 oak	acl:relcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 hand	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hand	det
22	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hand	amod
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stands	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 goes	punct
25	just	just	ADV	_	28 goes	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 goes	mark
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 goes	nsubj
28	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 stands	conj
29	out	out	ADV	_	28 goes	advmod
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 castle	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 castle	det
32	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 goes	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 oak	punct
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 brown	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 bush	det
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 bush	amod
37	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 brown	nsubj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 brown	punct
39	rather	rather	ADV	_	40 brown	advmod
40	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
41	than	than	ADP	_	42 green	case
42	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 brown	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 leaves	punct
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 leaves	case
45	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 leaves	amod
46	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 brown	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 spikes	cc
48	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 spikes	amod
49	spikes	spike	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 leaves	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king's garden			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	stand	present	the great oak	the left hand		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hand=Location
3	go out	present	one	the castle	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	garden	the great oak	than green; with hairy leaves and long spikes; brown property	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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