The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 135
Not far away was a house which Little Lasse had seen before; near the house there was a garden, and in the garden a pea bed with long pea shells.
Who acts: Little · What happens: be, see · To what, where: house, garden
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (Little), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 house | advmod |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 far | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 house | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 seen | obj |
| 8 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 seen | nsubj |
| 9 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Little | flat |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 house | acl:relcl |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 seen | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 garden | punct |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 garden | obl |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 garden | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 garden | det |
| 20 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 garden | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 garden | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 garden | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 garden | det |
| 25 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 bed | det |
| 27 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bed | compound |
| 28 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 garden | appos |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 shells | case |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 shells | amod |
| 31 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shells | compound |
| 32 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 bed | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a house and the garden | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | Little | a house and the garden | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Little not said here | a garden | the house | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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