The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 19
So for a long time the fountain was tended with the most scrupulous care, and was the clearest and prettiest in all the country round.
Who acts: clearest · What happens: tend, be · To what, where: fountain, country
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clearest), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 tended | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tended | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fountain | det |
| 7 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tended | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tended | aux:pass |
| 9 | tended | tend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 care | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 care | det |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 scrupulous | advmod |
| 13 | scrupulous | scrupulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 care | amod |
| 14 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tended | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 prettiest | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 prettiest | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 prettiest | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 prettiest | det |
| 19 | clearest | clear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 prettiest | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 prettiest | cc |
| 21 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 tended | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 country | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 country | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 country | det |
| 25 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 prettiest | obl |
| 26 | round | round | ADV | _ | 25 country | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tend | past · passive | the fountain | time | with the scrupulous care | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | clearest | all country | pretty 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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