The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 10
This kingdom was situated in the Island of Roses, where the climate is so delicious that the grass is always green and the flowers always sweet.
Who acts: climate, grass, flowers · What happens: situate, be · To what, where: kingdom, Island
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (climate, grass, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 kingdom | det |
| 2 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 situated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 situated | aux:pass |
| 4 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Island | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Island | det |
| 7 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 situated | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Roses | case |
| 9 | Roses | Rose | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Island | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 delicious | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 delicious | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 climate | det |
| 13 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 delicious | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 delicious | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 delicious | advmod |
| 16 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Island | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 green | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 grass | det |
| 19 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 green | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 green | cop |
| 21 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 green | advmod |
| 22 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 delicious | advcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sweet | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 flowers | det |
| 25 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 sweet | nsubj |
| 26 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 27 sweet | advmod |
| 27 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 green | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 situated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | situate | past · passive | this kingdom | the Island of Roses | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in island=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the climate | delicious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the grass | always, green property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the flowers | always property | tree rules |
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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