The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 61
Luckily, just at that place the trees grew thinner, and he could see a small farmhouse a little way off.
Who acts: place, Peronnik · What happens: grow, see · To what, where: small farmhouse
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, Peronnik), 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 | Luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 6 place | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 place | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 place | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trees | det |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | thinner | thin | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 grew | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 see | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 grew | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 farmhouse | det |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 farmhouse | amod |
| 18 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 way | amod |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | off | off | ADV | _ | 21 way | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | that place | thin property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | could | Peronnik | a small farmhouse | a little way obl:unmarked | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer farmhouse=Stimulus |
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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