The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 5
For his amusement she had made a new forest, planted with the most splendid trees, and turned loose in it every animal that could be found in any of the four quarters of the globe.
Who acts: mother, man · What happens: make, plant, turn, find, amuse · To what, where: new forest, animal, any
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 (mother, man), 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 | _ | 3 amusement | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 amusement | nmod:poss |
| 3 | amusement | amusement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 forest | amod |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 planted | punct |
| 11 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 made | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 trees | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trees | det |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 splendid | advmod |
| 15 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 trees | amod |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 planted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turned | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turned | cc |
| 19 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 20 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 turned | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 turned | obl |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 animal | det |
| 24 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turned | obj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 found | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 found | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 found | aux:pass |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 animal | acl:relcl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 any | case |
| 30 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 found | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 quarters | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 quarters | det |
| 33 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 quarters | nummod |
| 34 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 any | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 globe | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 globe | det |
| 37 | globe | globe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 quarters | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect | mother | a new forest | for man's amusement | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent forest=Product for amusement=Asset | |||
| 2 | plant | participle | mother not said here | with the splendid trees | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tree=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | mother not said here | every animal | in forest; loose property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent animal=Patient in it=Topic | |||
| 4 | find | could · passive | every animal | any | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 5 | amuse | man | nom amusement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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