The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 104
A little back from the high road there stands a house which is called ‘Hemgard.’
Who acts: little back · What happens: stand, call · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little back), 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 back | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 back | amod |
| 3 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stands | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 road | amod |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 back | nmod |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 stands | expl |
| 9 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stands | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 called | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 called | aux:pass |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 house | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hemgard | punct |
| 16 | Hemgard | Hemgard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stands | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a little back from the high road | a house | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | call | present · passive | a house | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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