The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 21
A long time ago a little town made up of a collection of low huts stood in a tiny green valley at the foot of a cliff.
Who acts: little town · What happens: make up, stand · To what, where: little town, tiny green valley
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little town), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obl |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 time | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 town | amod |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 town | acl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 made | compound:prt |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 collection | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 collection | det |
| 12 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 huts | case |
| 14 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 huts | amod |
| 15 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 collection | nmod |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 valley | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 valley | det |
| 19 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 valley | amod |
| 20 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 valley | amod |
| 21 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 foot | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 foot | det |
| 24 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 cliff | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 cliff | det |
| 27 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 foot | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | participle | a little town not said here | of a collection of low huts | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a little town | a tiny green valley | time | at the foot of a cliff | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in valley=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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