More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 141

It has quite recently been rebuilt; but when I was at Dalton, six years ago, the old building stood.

Who acts: mill, I, Dalton · What happens: have, rebuild, be, stand · To what, where: Dalton

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mill, I, Dalton), 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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 rebuilt	advmod
4	recently	recently	ADV	_	6 rebuilt	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 rebuilt	aux:pass
6	rebuilt	rebuild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 has	xcomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 stood	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 stood	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 Dalton	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 Dalton	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Dalton	cop
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 Dalton	case
13	Dalton	Dalton	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 stood	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 years	punct
15	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Dalton	obl:unmarked
17	ago	ago	ADV	_	16 years	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stood	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 building	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 building	amod
21	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	nsubj
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	mill				tree rules
2	rebuild	participle · passive	mill not said here			recently property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»
3	is	past	I	Dalton	year		tree rules
4	stand	past	Dalton				vn assuming_position-50 «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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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