The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 45
Behind your father’s castle stands a mill, and in the mill are three slender twigs.
Who acts: three slender twigs · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: mill, castle
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three slender twigs), 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 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 5 castle | case |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 castle | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 father | case |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stands | obl |
| 6 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mill | det |
| 8 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stands | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 are | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 are | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 mill | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mill | det |
| 13 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 are | obl |
| 14 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stands | parataxis |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 twigs | nummod |
| 16 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 twigs | amod |
| 17 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 are | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a mill | your father's castle | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mill=Theme behind castle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | does | present | three slender twigs | the mill | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mill=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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