The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 56

The house she was seeking was in a broad street, and ought to have been very magnificent, but the carved stone portico enclosed a mean little door of rough wood, while a row of beautiful pillars led to nothing.

Who acts: wife, house, carved stone portico, row · What happens: seek, be, carve, enclose, lead · To what, where: house, broad street, mean little door

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, house, carved stone portico, row), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 street	nsubj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seeking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seeking	aux
5	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 house	acl:relcl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 street	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 street	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 street	det
9	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 street	amod
10	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 magnificent	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 magnificent	cc
13	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 magnificent	aux
14	to	to	PART	_	18 magnificent	mark
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 magnificent	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 magnificent	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 magnificent	advmod
18	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 street	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 enclosed	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 enclosed	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 portico	det
22	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 portico	amod
23	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 portico	compound
24	portico	portico	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 enclosed	nsubj
25	enclosed	enclose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 magnificent	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 door	det
27	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 door	amod
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 door	amod
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 enclosed	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 wood	case
31	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 wood	amod
32	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 door	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 led	punct
34	while	while	SCONJ	_	40 led	mark
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 row	det
36	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 led	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 pillars	case
38	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 pillars	amod
39	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 row	nmod
40	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 enclosed	conj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 nothing	case
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	40 led	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 street	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seek	past · progressive	wife	the house not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
2	is	past	the house		a broad street		tree rules
3	is	ought · perfect				magnificent property	tree rules
4	carve	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	enclose	past	the carved stone portico	a mean little door of rough wood			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Co-Theme
6	lead	past	a row of beautiful pillars			to nothing	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to nothing=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 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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