The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 43

The cherry-trees were bare, for it was the season when small pots of them were sold to rich people, who kept them in hot places, so that they might blossom early and decorate their rooms.

Who acts: cherry trees, tree, rich people, ashes · What happens: be, sell, keep, blossom, decorate · To what, where: small pots, ashes, hot places, rooms

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cherry trees, tree, rich people, ashes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
2	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trees	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 cherry	punct
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bare	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bare	cop
6	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 season	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 season	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 season	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 season	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 season	det
12	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bare	obl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 sold	advmod
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pots	amod
15	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sold	nsubj:pass
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pots	nmod
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sold	aux:pass
19	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 season	acl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 people	case
21	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sold	obl:agent
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 kept	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 kept	nsubj
25	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 people	acl:relcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kept	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 places	case
28	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 places	amod
29	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 kept	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 blossom	punct
31	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	35 blossom	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 so	fixed
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 blossom	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 blossom	aux
35	blossom	blossom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 kept	parataxis
36	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 blossom	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 decorate	cc
38	decorate	decorate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 blossom	conj
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 rooms	nmod:poss
40	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 decorate	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cherry trees				bare property	tree rules
2	is	past	tree			for the season		tree rules
3	sell	past · passive	rich people	small pots of ashes				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	keep	past	rich people	ashes = ash	hot places			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in place=Location
5	blossom	might	ashes = ash				early property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	decorate	infinitive	ashes = ash not said here	ashes's rooms				vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Destination

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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