The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 10
For in a heap higher than the King’s palace lay all the grain of the country, and not a single stalk of corn had been left behind in any of the fields.
What happens: lie, leave · To what, where: grain, single stalk, any
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 heap | case |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 heap | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 heap | det |
| 4 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obl |
| 5 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 lay | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 palace | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 King | case |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obl |
| 11 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 grain | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 grain | det |
| 14 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grain | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 left | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 left | cc |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 stalk | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 stalk | det |
| 22 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stalk | amod |
| 23 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 left | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 corn | case |
| 25 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stalk | nmod |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 left | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 left | aux:pass |
| 28 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 lay | conj |
| 29 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 31 any | case |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 any | case |
| 31 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 left | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 fields | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 fields | det |
| 34 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 any | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | all grain of the country | for a heap; than the King's palace | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect · passive | a single stalk of corn | any | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme behind any=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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