The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 38
Overgrown with thistles and rank weeds, in the centre of which a leafy lime tree reared itself.
Who acts: leafy lime tree · What happens: overgrow, rear · To what, where: centre
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (leafy lime tree), 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 | Overgrown | overgrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 thistles | case |
| 3 | thistles | thistle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Overgrown | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 weeds | cc |
| 5 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weeds | compound |
| 6 | weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thistles | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 centre | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 centre | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 centre | det |
| 10 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thistles | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 reared | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 14 | leafy | leafy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tree | amod |
| 15 | lime | lime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | compound |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reared | nsubj |
| 17 | reared | rear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 centre | acl:relcl |
| 18 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 reared | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Overgrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overgrow | participle | with thistles and rank weeds | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rear | past | a leafy lime tree | centre | of the centre | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=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 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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