The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 50

There were sweet peas in it, and two rose trees, which grow beautifully, and in summer the two children were allowed to take their little chairs and sit out under the roses.

Who acts: sweet peas, two, trees, two children · What happens: be, rise, grow, allow, take, sit out · To what, where: trees, two children, little chairs, roses

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweet peas, two, trees, two children), 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	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 peas	amod
4	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 peas	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rose	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rose	cc
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 rose	nsubj
10	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rose	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grow	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 grow	nsubj
14	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 trees	acl:relcl
15	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	14 grow	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 allowed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 allowed	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 summer	case
19	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 allowed	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 children	det
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 children	nummod
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 allowed	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 allowed	aux:pass
24	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 rose	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 allowed	xcomp
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 chairs	nmod:poss
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 chairs	amod
29	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 take	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sit	cc
31	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 allowed	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 sit	compound:prt
33	under	under	ADP	_	35 roses	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 roses	det
35	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sit	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	sweet peas in town		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rise	past	two	trees				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme
3	grow	present	trees				beautifully property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	allow	past · passive		the two children		summer		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	the two children not said here	children's little chairs				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Theme
6	sit out	present			the roses			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under rose=Location

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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