The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 20

In winter they dwelt in a little cottage by the shore, but in spring they flitted to a red rock out in the sea and stayed there the whole summer until it was autumn.

Who acts: sisters, sea · What happens: dwell, flit, stay, be · To what, where: little cottage, sea

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, sea), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 winter	case
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dwelt	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dwelt	nsubj
4	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 cottage	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cottage	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cottage	amod
8	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dwelt	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 shore	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shore	det
11	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cottage	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flitted	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 flitted	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 spring	case
15	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flitted	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flitted	nsubj
17	flitted	flit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dwelt	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 rock	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 rock	det
20	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rock	amod
21	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flitted	obl
22	out	out	ADV	_	17 flitted	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 sea	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sea	det
25	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flitted	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stayed	cc
27	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dwelt	conj
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 stayed	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 summer	det
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 summer	amod
31	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stayed	obl:unmarked
32	until	until	ADP	_	35 autumn	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 autumn	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 autumn	cop
35	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stayed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dwelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	dwell	past	sisters = sister	a little cottage by the shore	winter		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=Location
2	flit	past	sisters = sister	the sea	spring	to a red rock; out property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to rock=Destination
3	stay	past	sisters = sister not said here	there	summer		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	sea		until autumn		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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