The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 22
The rock was called Ahtola, and was not larger than the market-place of a town.
What happens: call, not be · To what, where: rock · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 rock | det |
| 2 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | Ahtola | Ahtola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 larger | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 larger | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 larger | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 larger | advmod |
| 10 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 called | conj |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 13 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 place | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 market | punct |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 larger | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 town | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 town | det |
| 18 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 place | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | the rock | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | than the market place of a town; large property | 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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