The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 100
About half a mile from the palace in which they lived there stood a castle, which was uninhabited and almost a ruin, but the garden which surrounded it was a mass of blooming flowers, and in this garden the youngest Princess used often to walk.
Who acts: Princesses, mile, castle, garden, mass · What happens: live, stand, be, surround, bloom, use · To what, where: palace, castle, garden, mass, flowers, youngest Princess
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princesses, mile, castle, garden), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 half | advmod |
| 2 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 4 mile | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mile | det |
| 4 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mile | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lived | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 palace | acl:relcl |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 lived | advmod |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 castle | det |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 uninhabited | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 uninhabited | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 uninhabited | cop |
| 19 | uninhabited | uninhabited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 castle | appos |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ruin | cc |
| 21 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 23 ruin | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 ruin | det |
| 23 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 uninhabited | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 mass | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 mass | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 garden | det |
| 27 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 mass | nsubj |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 garden | acl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 mass | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 mass | cop |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 mass | det |
| 33 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 34 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 35 blooming | mark |
| 35 | blooming | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 mass | acl |
| 36 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 blooming | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 garden | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 garden | cc |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 garden | case |
| 40 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 garden | det |
| 41 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Princess | det |
| 43 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 44 Princess | amod |
| 44 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 garden | appos |
| 45 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 Princess | acl |
| 46 | often | often | ADV | _ | 45 used | advmod |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 walk | mark |
| 48 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 used | advcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Princesses = princess | the palace; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | half mile from the palace | a castle | this garden | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme in garden=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | a castle | uninhabited property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | surround | participle · passive | the garden | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | the garden | a mass | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | bloom | gerund | a mass not said here | flowers | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme | ||||
| 7 | use | participle | the youngest Princess not said here | often property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | walk | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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