The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 19
Prince Milan’s charger was still grazing on the grass which grew near the water.
Who acts: charger, grass · What happens: graze, grow · To what, where: water
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (charger, grass), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Milan | compound |
| 2 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 charger | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Milan | case |
| 4 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grazing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grazing | aux |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 grazing | advmod |
| 7 | grazing | graze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 grass | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grass | det |
| 10 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grazing | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grass | acl:relcl |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grazing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | graze | past · progressive | Prince Milan's charger | still | on the grass | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on grass=Patient | |||
| 2 | grow | past | the grass | the water | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near water=Location |
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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