The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 4

But people say that underneath the black waters of the pool she has a house filled with beautiful things, such as mortals who dwell on the earth have no idea of.

Who acts: people, side, mortals · What happens: say, have, fill, dwell · To what, where: house, earth, idea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (people, side, mortals), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 say	cc
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 has	mark
5	underneath	underneath	ADP	_	8 waters	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 waters	det
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 waters	amod
8	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 has	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 pool	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pool	det
11	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waters	nmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 has	nsubj
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 has	obj
16	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 house	acl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 things	case
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 things	amod
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 filled	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 mortals	punct
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	23 mortals	case
22	as	as	ADP	_	21 such	fixed
23	mortals	mortal	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 have	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 dwell	nsubj
25	dwell	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 mortals	acl:relcl
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 earth	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 earth	det
28	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dwell	obl
29	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 things	parataxis
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 idea	det
31	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 idea	case
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	people				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	side	a house		underneath the black waters of the pool	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient
3	fill	participle		a house not said here		with beautiful things	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with thing=Instrument
4	dwell	present	mortals		the earth		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location
5	have	present	mortals	no idea			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=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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