The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 27
But it was no tree he leant against, but a gallows on which two ravens were seated.
Who acts: sun · What happens: be, seat · To what, where: leant, gallows
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 leant | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 leant | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 leant | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leant | nsubj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 leant | nsubj |
| 7 | leant | leant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | against | against | SCONJ | _ | 18 seated | mark |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seated | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 seated | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 gallows | det |
| 12 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 16 ravens | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 ravens | nummod |
| 16 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gallows | nmod |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seated | aux:pass |
| 18 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 leant | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 leant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sun | leant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seat | past · passive | a gallows which two ravens | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
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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