The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 43
All the girls in the kingdom had their homes on the ground, and laughed at the notion of being brought up in a tree.
Who acts: girls · What happens: have, laugh, bring up · To what, where: homes, ground, notion, tree
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 girls | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girls | det |
| 3 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 kingdom | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kingdom | det |
| 6 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 girls | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 homes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 laughed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 laughed | cc |
| 15 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 notion | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 notion | det |
| 18 | notion | notion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laughed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 brought | mark |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 brought | aux:pass |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 notion | acl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 brought | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 tree | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tree | det |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | all girls in the kingdom | riches's homes | the ground | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient | |||
| 2 | laugh | past | all girls in the kingdom not said here | the notion | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bring up | gerund · passive | the notion not said here | a tree | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient» |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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