The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 30
It was a very splendid place, with a wonderful gateway, and walls like Alexander’s ramparts.
Who acts: house · What happens: be · To what, where: splendid place
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 place | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 place | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 splendid | advmod |
| 5 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 place | amod |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gateway | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 gateway | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 gateway | det |
| 10 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gateway | amod |
| 11 | gateway | gateway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 place | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 walls | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 walls | cc |
| 14 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 place | conj |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 ramparts | case |
| 16 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ramparts | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Alexander | case |
| 18 | ramparts | rampart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 walls | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | house | a splendid place and a wonderful gateway and walls like Alexander's ramparts | 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 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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