The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 7
In a large hall the Groac’h was lying on a couch of gold.
Who acts: Groac’h · What happens: lie · To what, where: large hall
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Groac’h), 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 | _ | 4 hall | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hall | det |
| 3 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hall | amod |
| 4 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lying | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Groac’h | det |
| 6 | Groac’h | Groac'h | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lying | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lying | aux |
| 8 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 couch | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 couch | det |
| 11 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lying | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 couch | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | the Groac’h | a large hall | on a couch of gold | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location |
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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