The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 97

And the river flowed round the castle, and on its banks slept lions with iron teeth and claws; and beyond were gardens such as only the Fairy of the Dawn can have, and on the flowers slept a fairy!

Who acts: river, gardens · What happens: flow, sleep, be, have · To what, where: lions, banks, gardens, fairy, flowers

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 (river, 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	_	4 flowed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flowed	nsubj
4	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADP	_	7 castle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 castle	det
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flowed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 slept	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 slept	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 banks	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 banks	nmod:poss
12	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 slept	obl
13	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flowed	conj
14	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 slept	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 teeth	case
16	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 teeth	compound
17	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lions	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 claws	cc
19	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 teeth	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 have	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 gardens	cc
22	beyond	beyond	ADV	_	24 gardens	advmod
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 gardens	cop
24	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 have	nsubj
25	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	29 Fairy	case
26	as	as	ADP	_	25 such	fixed
27	only	only	ADV	_	29 Fairy	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Fairy	det
29	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 have	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Dawn	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Dawn	det
32	Dawn	Dawn	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Fairy	nmod
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 have	aux
34	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 flowed	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 slept	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 slept	cc
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 flowers	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 flowers	det
39	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 slept	obl
40	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flowed	conj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 fairy	det
42	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 slept	obj
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 flowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flow	past	the river			round the castle	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	past	the river not said here	lions	river's banks	with iron teeth and claws	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme
3	is a	past		gardens		beyond property	tree rules
4	have	can	gardens			such the Fairy of the Dawn	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	sleep	past	the river not said here	a fairy	the flowers		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=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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