The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 26
Above them was a rampart of orange and lemon trees, and all the streets were paved with gold.
Who acts: walls, rampart · What happens: be, pave · To what, where: rampart, streets
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 (walls, rampart), 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 | Above | above | ADP | _ | 5 rampart | case |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rampart | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rampart | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rampart | det |
| 5 | rampart | rampart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 orange | case |
| 7 | orange | orange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rampart | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 trees | cc |
| 9 | lemon | lemon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trees | compound |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 orange | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 paved | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 paved | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 streets | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 streets | det |
| 15 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 paved | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 paved | aux:pass |
| 17 | paved | pave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 rampart | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 gold | case |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 paved | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rampart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | walls = wall | a rampart | of orange and lemon trees | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pave | past · passive | a rampart not said here | all streets | with gold | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with gold=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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