The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 115
Before Petru lay a wood made of copper, with copper trees and copper leaves, with bushes and flowers of copper also.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: lie, make · To what, where: wood
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (Petru), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 lay | mark |
| 2 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wood | det |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wood | acl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 copper | case |
| 8 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trees | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 trees | case |
| 11 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trees | compound |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lay | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 leaves | cc |
| 14 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaves | compound |
| 15 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 trees | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bushes | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 bushes | case |
| 18 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lay | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flowers | cc |
| 20 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bushes | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 copper | case |
| 22 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flowers | nmod |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Petru | a wood | with copper trees and copper leaves; with bushes and flowers of copper | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wood=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | participle | a wood not said here | of copper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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