The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 2
“Far towards the east, in that direction, lives a beautiful maiden who is called ‘The Sister of the Sun.’ She has three golden hens in her house.
Who acts: east, fox · What happens: live, call, have · To what, where: beautiful maiden, three golden hens, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (east, fox), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 east | punct |
| 2 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 east | advmod |
| 3 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 5 east | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 east | det |
| 5 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lives | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 direction | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 direction | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 direction | det |
| 9 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 east | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 east | punct |
| 11 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 maiden | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 maiden | amod |
| 14 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lives | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 called | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 called | aux:pass |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 maiden | acl |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Sister | punct |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Sister | det |
| 20 | Sister | Sister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Sun. | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Sun. | det |
| 23 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Sister | nmod |
| 24 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 20 Sister | case |
| 25 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 has | nsubj |
| 26 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 called | parataxis |
| 27 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 hens | nummod |
| 28 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hens | amod |
| 29 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 has | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 house | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 house | nmod:poss |
| 32 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hens | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | present | the east and that direction | a beautiful maiden | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme maiden=Location | ||||
| 2 | call speech: assert in a quote | present · passive | a beautiful maiden | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | fox | three golden hens | fox's house | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Patient |
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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