The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 91

The stems and leaves were a bluish green, and above them was a little flower of a deep bright red, edged with yellow.

Who acts: stems · What happens: be, edge · To what, where: little flower

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (stems), 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	2 stems	det
2	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 green	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 leaves	cc
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stems	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 green	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 green	det
7	bluish	bluish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 green	amod
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flower	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 flower	cc
11	above	above	ADP	_	16 flower	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 flower	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 flower	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 flower	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 flower	amod
16	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 green	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 deep	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 deep	det
19	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 flower	nmod
20	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 red	amod
21	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 deep	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 edged	punct
23	edged	edge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 deep	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 yellow	case
25	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 edged	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 green	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the stems and leaves		green property	tree rules
2	is	past	stems = stem	a little flower	of a deep	tree rules
3	edge	participle	stems = stem not said here		with yellow	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with yellow=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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