The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 87
“Here’s a big house built since we passed this way before.”
Who acts: big house, we · What happens: be, build, pass · To what, where: big house, way
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big house, we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 7 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 house | acl |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 10 passed | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 built | advcl |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obj |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 way | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | a big house | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build in a quote | participle | a big house not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | pass in a quote | past | we | this way | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |
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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