The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 80

A splendid palace reared itself on the hill just outside the walls of the city, made of the most exquisite flowers that ever grew in mortal garden.

Who acts: splendid palace, exquisite flowers · What happens: rear, make, grow · To what, where: palace, hill, walls, mortal garden

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 (splendid palace, exquisite flowers), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 palace	det
2	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 palace	amod
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reared	nsubj
4	reared	rear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 reared	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 hill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reared	obl
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 walls	advmod
10	outside	outside	ADP	_	12 walls	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 walls	det
12	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reared	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 city	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 city	det
15	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walls	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 walls	acl
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 flowers	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 flowers	det
20	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	21 exquisite	advmod
21	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 flowers	amod
22	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 made	obl
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 grew	nsubj
24	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 grew	advmod
25	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 flowers	acl:relcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 garden	case
27	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 garden	amod
28	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grew	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rear	past	a splendid palace	palace	the hill			vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
2	make	participle		the walls of the city not said here			of the exquisite flowers	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	grow	past	the exquisite flowers		mortal garden	ever		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=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 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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