The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 49
Now in the cottage dwelt an old woman, her cat, and a hen; and it was really they, and not she, who were masters of the house.
Who acts: cat, hens · What happens: dwell, be, not be · To what, where: old woman, cottage, hens, masters
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, hens), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 dwelt | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 cottage | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cottage | det |
| 4 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dwelt | obl |
| 5 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dwelt | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cat | punct |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cat | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 woman | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hen | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hen | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hen | det |
| 15 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dwelt | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 masters | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 they | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 they | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 they | cop |
| 20 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 they | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 masters | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 masters | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 masters | cc |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 masters | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 masters | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 masters | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 masters | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 masters | cop |
| 29 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dwelt | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 house | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 house | det |
| 32 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 masters | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | a old woman | the cottage | now | a hen obl | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme woman=Location | ||
| 2 | is a | past | cat | hens = hen | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is a | past | hens = hen | masters | of the house | tree rules |
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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