The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 5

It was of enormous size, and was perched upon a thick bar of iron which ran across from one side of the Temple to the other.

Who acts: impatience, iron · What happens: be, perch, run · To what, where: enormous size, thick bar, one side

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (impatience, iron), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 size	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 size	cop
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 size	case
4	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 size	amod
5	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 perched	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 perched	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 perched	aux:pass
9	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 size	acl
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 bar	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bar	det
12	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bar	amod
13	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 perched	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 iron	case
15	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bar	nmod
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 ran	nsubj
17	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 iron	acl:relcl
18	across	across	ADV	_	17 ran	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 side	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 side	nummod
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ran	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Temple	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Temple	det
24	Temple	Temple	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 side	nmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 other	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 other	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ran	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 size	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	impatience			of enormous size	tree rules
2	perch	past · passive		enormous size not said here	a thick bar of iron		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: upon bar=Location
3	run	past	iron		one side of the Temple	to the other result; across property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to other=Result

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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