The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 21
So he built a large cottage, with a real lock to the door, and a store-house for fish as well; and he and his men caught such quantities of fish that they sent tons of salmon, herring, and cod to Russian and Sweden.
Who acts: Matte, quantities · What happens: build, catch, send · To what, where: large cottage, such quantities, fish
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Matte, quantities), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 built | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 built | nsubj |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cottage | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cottage | amod |
| 6 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lock | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 lock | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lock | det |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lock | amod |
| 11 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 door | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lock | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 house | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 house | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 18 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 house | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 store | punct |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 fish | case |
| 22 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 house | nmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 20 house | advmod |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 as | fixed |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 caught | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 caught | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 caught | nsubj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 men | cc |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 men | nmod:poss |
| 30 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 he | conj |
| 31 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | conj |
| 32 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 quantities | amod |
| 33 | quantities | quantity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 caught | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 fish | case |
| 35 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 quantities | nmod |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 sent | obj |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 sent | nsubj |
| 38 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 fish | acl:relcl |
| 39 | tons | ton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 sent | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 salmon | case |
| 41 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 tons | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 herring | punct |
| 43 | herring | herring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 salmon | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 cod | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 cod | cc |
| 46 | cod | cod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 caught | obl |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 Russian | case |
| 48 | Russian | Russian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 cod | nmod |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 Sweden | cc |
| 50 | Sweden | Sweden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Russian | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | Matte | a large cottage | with a real lock to the door; a store house for fish obl | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme with lock=Source | |||
| 2 | catch | past | Matte | such quantities of fish | cod to Russian and Sweden obl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme | |||
| 3 | send | past | quantities = quantity | fish | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Destination ton=Theme |
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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