The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 67
Only the hen-house was left standing; and, in spite of her riches, there the stepdaughter lived happily to the end of her days.
Who acts: hen house, stepdaughter · What happens: leave, stand, live, spite · To what, where: hen house, spite, riches
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hen house, stepdaughter), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 house | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 3 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 hen | punct |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | aux:pass |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 left | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 lived | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lived | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 spite | case |
| 13 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 riches | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 riches | nmod:poss |
| 16 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 spite | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spite | punct |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 lived | expl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stepdaughter | det |
| 20 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | nsubj |
| 21 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | conj |
| 22 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 21 lived | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 end | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 days | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 days | nmod:poss |
| 28 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 end | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | the hen house | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | the hen house not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | live | past | the stepdaughter | spite of stepdaughter's riches; there | to the end of stepdaughter's days | happily property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spite=Location | ||
| 4 | spite | stepdaughter's riches | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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