The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 75
So they hired a small house close to the royal castle, and took up their abode there.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: hire, take up · To what, where: small house, abode
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 hired | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hired | nsubj |
| 3 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hired | obj |
| 7 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 10 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 castle | amod |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 close | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hired | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 took | compound:prt |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 abode | nmod:poss |
| 17 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 took | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hire | past | eyes = eye | a small house | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take up | past | eyes = eye not said here | eyes's abode | there | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abode=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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