The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 4
But when he reached the little house where he lived, he stood still with amazement, for instead of his wooden hut was a stately palace filled with splendid furniture, and most splendid of all was the bed, in every respect like the one he had envied.
Who acts: cutter · What happens: reach, live, stand, be, fill, envy · To what, where: little house, respect, stately palace, one
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cutter), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 stood | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stood | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 lived | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 house | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 stood | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 amazement | case |
| 16 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 palace | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 19 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 23 hut | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 instead | fixed |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hut | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hut | amod |
| 23 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 palace | obl |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 palace | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 palace | det |
| 26 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 palace | amod |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 28 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 palace | acl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 furniture | case |
| 30 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 furniture | amod |
| 31 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 filled | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 splendid | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 splendid | cc |
| 34 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 35 splendid | advmod |
| 35 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stood | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 bed | case |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 bed | det |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 bed | cop |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 bed | det |
| 40 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 splendid | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 respect | punct |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 respect | case |
| 43 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 respect | det |
| 44 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 45 | like | like | ADP | _ | 47 one | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 one | det |
| 47 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 respect | nmod |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 envied | nsubj |
| 49 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 envied | aux |
| 50 | envied | envy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 47 one | acl:relcl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | cutter | the little house | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | cutter | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | cutter | every respect like the one | still | with amazement | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in respect=Location | ||
| 4 | is | past | for a stately palace; instead cutter's wooden hut | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fill | participle | a stately palace not said here | with splendid furniture | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with furniture=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | is | past | of all bed | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | envy | past · perfect | cutter | the one not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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