The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 108
On each side of the bridge there must be growing trees, having golden and silver apples, and with birds of Paradise among the branches.
What happens: be, grow, have · To what, where: side, trees, golden apples
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 side | det |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 be | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bridge | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bridge | det |
| 6 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 side | nmod |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 be | expl |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 be | aux |
| 9 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 be | xcomp |
| 11 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 growing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 having | punct |
| 13 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 growing | conj |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 apples | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 silver | cc |
| 16 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 golden | conj |
| 17 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 having | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 birds | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 birds | cc |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 birds | case |
| 21 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 having | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Paradise | case |
| 23 | Paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 birds | nmod |
| 24 | among | among | ADP | _ | 26 branches | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 branches | det |
| 26 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 birds | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | must | each side of the bridge; there | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | trees | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | golden apples | with birds of Paradise among the branches | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient |
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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