The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 99

The stems and leaves were a bluish green, and it bore a dark, bright red flower with a yellow edge.

Who acts: stems, more · What happens: be, bear · To what, where: dark bright red flower

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (stems, more), 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	_	12 bore	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bore	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bore	nsubj
12	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 green	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 flower	det
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flower	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dark	punct
16	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flower	amod
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flower	amod
18	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bore	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 edge	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 edge	det
21	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 edge	amod
22	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bore	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 green	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the stems and leaves					green property	tree rules
2	bear	past	more	a dark bright red flower				with a yellow edge	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient

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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