The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 88
Near the hut was a small barn in which he kept the produce of the little patch of corn, which grew close to the garden.
Who acts: man, corn · What happens: be, keep, grow · To what, where: small barn, hut, produce
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, corn), 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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 3 hut | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hut | det |
| 3 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 barn | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 barn | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 barn | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 barn | amod |
| 7 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 kept | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kept | nsubj |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 barn | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 produce | det |
| 13 | produce | produce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 patch | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 patch | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 patch | amod |
| 17 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 produce | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 corn | case |
| 19 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 patch | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 grew | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 grew | nsubj |
| 22 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 corn | acl:relcl |
| 23 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 grew | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 garden | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 garden | det |
| 26 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 close | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 barn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a small barn | the hut | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | man | the produce of the little patch of corn | a small barn | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent produce=Theme in which=Location | |||
| 3 | grow | past | corn | close property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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