The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 36
The next morning when they all awoke the ugly tumble-down house had disappeared, and in its place stood a splendid palace.
Who acts: sisters, ugly down house · What happens: awake, disappear, stand · To what, where: splendid palace, place
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, ugly down house), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awoke | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 awoke | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 awoke | nsubj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 they | det |
| 7 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 9 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 house | amod |
| 10 | tumble | tumble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 down | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 tumble | punct |
| 12 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | compound |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 disappeared | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 disappeared | aux |
| 15 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 awoke | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stood | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stood | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 place | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 place | nmod:poss |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | obl |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 awoke | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 23 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 palace | amod |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | sisters = sister | morning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past · perfect | the ugly down house | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | sisters = sister not said here | a splendid palace | house's place | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent palace=Theme in place=Destination |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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