The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 57
The dwelling on each side were in the same unfinished condition, and water trickled down the walls.
Who acts: dwelling, water · What happens: be, trickle down · To what, where: same unfinished condition, walls
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 (dwelling, water), 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 dwelling | det |
| 2 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 condition | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 side | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 side | det |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dwelling | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 condition | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 condition | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 condition | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 condition | amod |
| 10 | unfinished | unfinished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 condition | amod |
| 11 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 water | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 water | cc |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 condition | conj |
| 15 | trickled | trickle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 water | acl |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 walls | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 walls | det |
| 18 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 trickled | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 condition | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dwelling on each side | the same unfinished condition and water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trickle down | participle | water not said here | the walls | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wall=Source |
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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