The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 56
There, in the very place they had chosen, stood a beautiful house—doors and windows, and everything all complete!
Who acts: words · What happens: choose, stand · To what, where: place, beautiful house
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 stood | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 place | advmod |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 chosen | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 chosen | aux |
| 9 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 place | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 place | punct |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 house | amod |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obj |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 doors | punct |
| 16 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 house | appos |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 windows | cc |
| 18 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 doors | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 complete | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 complete | cc |
| 21 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 23 complete | nsubj |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 complete | advmod |
| 23 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stood | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · perfect | words = word | the place not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a beautiful house | the place; there | complete obl | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=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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