The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 133
And now he was in the wonderful gardens, which seemed more wonderful still than they had done from afar.
Who acts: Petru, wonderful gardens, gardens · What happens: be, seem, do · To what, where: wonderful gardens, afar
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru, wonderful gardens, gardens), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gardens | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 gardens | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gardens | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gardens | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 gardens | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gardens | det |
| 7 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gardens | amod |
| 8 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seemed | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 seemed | nsubj |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gardens | acl:relcl |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 wonderful | advmod |
| 13 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 seemed | xcomp |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 done | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 done | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 done | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 done | aux |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 seemed | xcomp |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 afar | case |
| 20 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 done | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gardens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Petru | the wonderful gardens | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seem | past | the wonderful gardens | wonderful property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | gardens = garden | afar | still | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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