The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 39
Leaving the house, he entered a grove of trees which stood behind, and took the box from his pocket.
Who acts: pity, grove · What happens: leave, enter, stand behind, take · To what, where: house, grove, box, pocket
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pity, grove), 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 | Leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 entered | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leaving | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leaving | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 entered | nsubj |
| 6 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 grove | det |
| 8 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 trees | case |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grove | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grove | acl:relcl |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 12 stood | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 entered | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 box | det |
| 18 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 pocket | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 21 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obl | ||
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | pity not said here | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | pity | a grove of trees | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grove=Destination | ||||
| 3 | stand behind | past | a grove of trees | behind property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | past | pity not said here | the box | pity's pocket | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent box=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location |
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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