The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 64

There were also in the garden three springs: the first flowed with silver, the second with gold, and the third with pearls.

Who acts: three springs · What happens: be, flow · To what, where: garden

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three springs), 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	also	also	ADV	_	2 were	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 garden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	obl
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 springs	nummod
8	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 silver	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 silver	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 silver	amod
12	flowed	flow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 silver	amod
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 silver	case
14	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 springs	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 second	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 second	det
17	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 silver	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 gold	case
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 second	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 third	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 third	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 third	det
23	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 were	parataxis
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 pearls	case
25	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 third	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	three springs with the first flowed silver			the garden; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location
2	flow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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