The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 106
'In a valley beyond those trees,' answered the hedgehog, 'there is a small farmhouse where the best butter in the world is made.
Who acts: small farmhouse · What happens: answer, be, make · To what, where: hedgehog, valley, best butter
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small farmhouse), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 valley | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 valley | det |
| 4 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obl |
| 5 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 7 trees | case |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 trees | det |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 valley | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 valley | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 is | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hedgehog | det |
| 12 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 is | expl |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 farmhouse | det |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 farmhouse | amod |
| 19 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 is | nsubj |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 made | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 butter | det |
| 22 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 butter | amod |
| 23 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 butter | nmod |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 made | aux:pass |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 farmhouse | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | a small farmhouse not said here | the hedgehog | a valley beyond that trees | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | be | present | a small farmhouse | there | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | present · passive | the best butter in the world | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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