The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 64

It stood on a little hill in the middle of a plain, and could be seen a very long way off.

Who acts: pillar · What happens: stand, see · To what, where: little hill, long way

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pillar), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 hill	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hill	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hill	amod
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 plain	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 plain	det
12	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 middle	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seen	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 seen	cc
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 seen	aux:pass
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 way	det
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 long	advmod
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 way	amod
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seen	obj
22	off	off	ADV	_	17 seen	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	pillar			a little hill		in the middle of a plain	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location
2	see	could · passive	pillar not said here	a long way				off property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: way=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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