Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 84
This dwelling stood on a black rock, altogether surrounded by the sea, and near to it was a garden of which the flowers and fruits never failed.
Who acts: dwelling, flowers · What happens: stand, surround, be, not fail · To what, where: black rock
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwelling, flowers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 dwelling | det |
| 2 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 rock | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rock | det |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rock | amod |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 surrounded | punct |
| 9 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 10 surrounded | advmod |
| 10 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stood | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 garden | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 garden | cc |
| 16 | near | near | ADV | _ | 21 garden | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 garden | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 garden | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 garden | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 garden | det |
| 21 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 failed | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 flowers | det |
| 25 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 failed | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fruits | cc |
| 27 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 flowers | conj |
| 28 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 29 failed | advmod |
| 29 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 garden | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | this dwelling | a black rock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | ||||
| 2 | surround | participle | this dwelling not said here | the sea obl:agent; altogether property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | dwelling | to a garden; near property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not fail | past | the flowers and fruits | of a garden | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (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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