The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 53
Plouhinec is a small town near Hennebonne by the sea.
Who acts: Plouhinec · What happens: be · To what, where: small town, Hennebonne
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Plouhinec), 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 | Plouhinec | Plouhinec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 town | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 town | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 town | det |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 town | amod |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 Hennebonne | case |
| 7 | Hennebonne | Hennebonne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 town | nmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 town | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 town | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Plouhinec | a small town | Hennebonne | by the sea | 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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