The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 21
In front of the house was a group of people; two or three women and the sons of the farmer.
What happens: be · To what, where: group, front
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 front | case |
| 2 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 group | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 front | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 group | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 group | det |
| 8 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 group | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 women | punct |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 women | nummod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 three | cc |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 two | conj |
| 15 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 group | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sons | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sons | det |
| 18 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 women | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 farmer | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 farmer | det |
| 21 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sons | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 group | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a group | front of the house | of people | 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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