The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 5
During their wanderings they came unperceived on a piece of waste land where three splendid trees grew.
Who acts: three splendid trees, sons · What happens: unperceiv, grow, wander · To what, where: sons, piece
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three splendid trees, sons), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 wanderings | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wanderings | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wanderings | wandering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 unperceived | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 unperceived | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 unperceived | aux:pass |
| 6 | unperceived | unperceiv | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 piece | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 piece | det |
| 9 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 unperceived | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 11 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 land | compound |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 piece | nmod |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 grew | advmod |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 trees | nummod |
| 15 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 trees | amod |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 grew | nsubj |
| 17 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 land | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 unperceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unperceiv | past · passive | sons = son | a piece of waste land | during sons's wanderings | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow | past | three splendid trees | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wander | sons = son | nom wandering «act 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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