The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 91
He is not at home just now, he is out digging in the vineyard.
Who acts: son · What happens: not be, dig · To what, where: home, vineyard
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 (son), 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 | 5 home | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 home | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 home | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 now | advmod |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 home | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 digging | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 digging | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 digging | aux |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 digging | advmod |
| 12 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 home | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 vineyard | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 vineyard | det |
| 15 | vineyard | vineyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 digging | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 home | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | son | home | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dig | present · progressive | son | the vineyard | out property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in vineyard=Location |
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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