The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 6

Here it was neither hot nor cold, but the air was warm and soft like spring, though the way ran through a heath covered with sand and thistles.

Who acts: horse, air, way · What happens: be, run, cover · To what, where: heath

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 (horse, air, way), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 hot	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hot	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	cop
4	neither	neither	ADV	_	5 hot	advmod
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	7 cold	cc
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hot	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 warm	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 warm	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 air	det
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 warm	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 warm	cop
13	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hot	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 soft	cc
15	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 warm	conj
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 spring	case
17	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 soft	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ran	punct
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 ran	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ran	nsubj
22	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 warm	conj
23	through	through	ADP	_	25 heath	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 heath	det
25	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ran	obl
26	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 heath	acl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 sand	case
28	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 covered	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 thistles	cc
30	thistles	thistle	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sand	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	horse		here		hot, neither property	tree rules
2	be		horse not said here					tree rules
3	is	past	the air				warm property	tree rules
4	be		the air not said here			spring		tree rules
5	run	past	the way		a heath			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through heath=Trajectory
6	cover	participle		a heath not said here			with sand and thistles	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sand=Theme

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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