The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 12

In the mountain yonder there dwells a roe, white of foot, with horns that branch like the antlers of a deer.

Who acts: horns · What happens: dwell, branch · To what, where: roe, mountain

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horns), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 mountain	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mountain	det
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwells	obl
4	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	5 there	advmod
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 dwells	advmod
6	dwells	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 roe	det
8	roe	roe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwells	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 white	punct
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 roe	amod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 foot	case
12	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 white	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 horns	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 horns	case
15	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dwells	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 branch	nsubj
17	branch	branch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 horns	acl:relcl
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 antlers	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 antlers	det
20	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 branch	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 deer	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 deer	det
23	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 antlers	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dwells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dwell	present		a roe		the mountain; there		with horns	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme roe=Location
2	branch	present	horns					like the antlers of a deer	vn differ-23.4 «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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