The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 72
He went straight to it and in the house were three girls playing a game together.
Who acts: Luck, three girls · What happens: go, be, play · To what, where: town, three girls, house, game
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (Luck, three 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 5 it | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 girls | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 girls | obl |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 girls | cop |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 girls | nummod |
| 12 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | conj |
| 13 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 girls | acl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 game | det |
| 15 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 playing | obj |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 playing | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Luck | town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Luck not said here | three girls | the house | tree rules | |||
| 3 | play | gerund | three girls not said here | a game | together property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
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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