The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 21
The cottage on the rock was even smaller than the other; it had a wooden bolt instead of an iron lock to the door, a stone hearth, a flagstaff, and a weather-cock on the roof.
Who acts: cottage · What happens: be, have · To what, where: wooden bolt
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 (cottage), 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 cottage | det |
| 2 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smaller | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 rock | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rock | det |
| 5 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cottage | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 smaller | cop |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 smaller | advmod |
| 8 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 other | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 other | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 smaller | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 smaller | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bolt | det |
| 16 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bolt | amod |
| 17 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 18 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 22 lock | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 instead | fixed |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 lock | det |
| 21 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lock | compound |
| 22 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 door | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 door | det |
| 25 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lock | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hearth | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 hearth | det |
| 28 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hearth | compound |
| 29 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lock | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 flagstaff | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 flagstaff | det |
| 32 | flagstaff | flagstaff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hearth | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 cock | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 cock | cc |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 cock | det |
| 36 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 cock | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 weather | punct |
| 38 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smaller | obl |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 roof | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 roof | det |
| 41 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 cock | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 smaller | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cottage on the rock | than the other; a weather cock on the roof obl; small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | cottage | a wooden bolt | instead a iron lock to the door and a stone hearth and a flagstaff | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bolt=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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