The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 68

The whole castle was surrounded by a deep moat, and the drawbridge and the gates, and even the water in the moat, were all of the same sombre hue as the walls and towers.

Who acts: deep moat · What happens: surround · To what, where: whole castle

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (deep moat), 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	3 castle	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 castle	amod
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 surrounded	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surrounded	aux:pass
5	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 moat	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 moat	det
8	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 moat	amod
9	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 surrounded	obl:agent
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 all	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 all	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 drawbridge	det
13	drawbridge	drawbridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 all	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gates	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gates	det
16	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 drawbridge	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 water	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 water	cc
19	even	even	ADV	_	21 water	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drawbridge	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 moat	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 moat	det
24	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 water	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drawbridge	punct
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 all	cop
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 surrounded	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 hue	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hue	det
30	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hue	amod
31	sombre	sombre	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hue	amod
32	hue	hue	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 all	nmod
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 walls	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 walls	det
35	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 surrounded	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 towers	cc
37	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 walls	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 surrounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	surround	past · passive	a deep moat	the whole castle				as the walls and towers	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-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 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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