The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 6

Their way lay inland, and Mannikin noticed with great surprise that the fields were well cultivated and that the carts and ploughs were drawn by horses or oxen, just as they might have been in any other country, and when they passed any village the cottages were trim and pretty, and an air of prosperity was everywhere.

Who acts: way, Mannikin, horses, forms, cottages, air · What happens: lay, notice, cultivate, draw, be, pass · To what, where: fields, carts, other country, village · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, Mannikin, horses, forms), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 way	nmod:poss
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	inland	inland	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 noticed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 noticed	cc
7	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 noticed	nsubj
8	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	advcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 surprise	case
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 surprise	amod
11	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 noticed	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 cultivated	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fields	det
14	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cultivated	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cultivated	aux:pass
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 cultivated	advmod
17	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 noticed	ccomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 drawn	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 drawn	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 carts	det
21	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 drawn	nsubj:pass
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ploughs	cc
23	ploughs	plough	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 carts	conj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 drawn	aux:pass
25	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 cultivated	conj
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 horses	case
27	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 drawn	obl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 oxen	cc
29	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 horses	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 country	punct
31	just	just	ADV	_	40 country	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 country	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 country	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 country	aux
35	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 country	aux
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 country	cop
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 country	case
38	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	40 country	det
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 country	amod
40	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drawn	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 passed	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 passed	cc
43	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	45 passed	advmod
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 passed	nsubj
45	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 noticed	parataxis
46	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	47 village	det
47	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 passed	obj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 cottages	det
49	cottages	cottage	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 trim	nsubj
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 trim	cop
51	trim	trim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 village	acl:relcl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 pretty	cc
53	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 trim	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 everywhere	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 everywhere	cc
56	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 air	det
57	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 everywhere	nsubj
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 prosperity	case
59	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 air	nmod
60	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 everywhere	cop
61	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	45 passed	advmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	present	forms's way			inland property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	notice	past	Mannikin			with great surprise	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	cultivate	past · passive		the fields		well property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
4	draw	past · passive	horses or oxen	the carts and ploughs			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
5	is	might · perfect	forms = form		any other country		tree rules
6	pass	past	forms = form	any village			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme village=Trajectory
7	is	past	the cottages	any village not said here		trim property	tree rules
8	be		the cottages not said here				tree rules
9	is	past	a air of prosperity			everywhere property	tree rules

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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