The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 227

At last they came to warm lands; there the sun was brighter, the sky seemed twice as high, and in the hedges hung the finest green and purple grapes; in the woods grew oranges and lemons: the air was scented with myrtle and mint, and on the roads were pretty little children running about and playing with great gorgeous butterflies.

Who acts: King, last, sky, woods, oranges, little children · What happens: come, be, seem, hang, grow, scent · To what, where: warm lands, finest green grapes, hedges, oranges, air, little children

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, last, sky, woods), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 brighter	nsubj
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	acl:relcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 warm	mark
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lands	amod
7	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 brighter	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 brighter	expl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brighter	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brighter	cop
13	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seemed	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sky	det
16	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seemed	nsubj
17	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brighter	parataxis
18	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 high	advmod
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 high	advmod
20	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 seemed	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hung	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hung	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 hedges	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hedges	det
25	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hung	obl
26	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seemed	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 grapes	det
28	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 grapes	amod
29	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 grapes	amod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 purple	cc
31	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 green	conj
32	grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hung	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 grew	punct
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 woods	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 woods	det
36	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 grew	nsubj
37	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seemed	conj
38	oranges	orange	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 grew	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 lemons	cc
40	lemons	lemon	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 oranges	conj
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 scented	punct
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 air	det
43	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 scented	nsubj:pass
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 scented	aux:pass
45	scented	scent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 oranges	acl
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 myrtle	case
47	myrtle	myrtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 scented	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 mint	cc
49	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 myrtle	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 children	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 children	cc
52	on	on	ADP	_	54 roads	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 roads	det
54	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 children	obl
55	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 children	cop
56	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	58 children	advmod
57	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 children	amod
58	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 grew	obl
59	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	58 children	acl
60	about	about	ADV	_	59 running	advmod
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 playing	cc
62	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	59 running	conj
63	with	with	ADP	_	66 butterflies	case
64	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 butterflies	amod
65	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 butterflies	amod
66	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 playing	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 brighter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	King	warm lands			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location land=Theme
2	is	past	last		there	bright property	tree rules
3	seem	past	the sky			high property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	hang	past	the sky not said here	the finest green grapes	the hedges		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent grape=Theme in hedge=Destination
5	grow	past	the woods	oranges and lemons			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location orange=Theme
6	scent	past · passive	oranges and lemons not said here	the air		with myrtle and mint	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with myrtle=Theme
7	is a	past		little children	the roads	pretty property	tree rules
8	run about	gerund	little children not said here			about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	play	gerund	little children not said here			with great gorgeous butterflies	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with butterfly=Co-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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