The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 67
Near him was a house built of yellow stone, and from it came sweet songs, and Covan listened, and his heart grew light within him.
Who acts: water, stone, Covan, heart · What happens: be, build, come, listen, grow · To what, where: house, sweet songs
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, stone, Covan, heart), 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 | _ | 5 house | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 house | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 house | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 house | acl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stone | case |
| 8 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stone | amod |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 built | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 grew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 grew | cc |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 came | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 grew | advcl |
| 15 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 songs | amod |
| 16 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 listened | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 listened | cc |
| 19 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 listened | nsubj |
| 20 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 grew | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 grew | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 heart | nmod:poss |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grew | nsubj |
| 25 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 house | conj |
| 26 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 grew | xcomp |
| 27 | within | within | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 light | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | water | a house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build | participle | a house not said here | of yellow stone | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | come | past | stone | sweet songs | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 4 | listen | past | Covan | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | grow | past | water's heart | light 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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