The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 108

In the pretty house, which has white window-frames, a neat porch and clean steps, which are always strewn with finely-cut juniper leaves, Walter’s parents live.

Who acts: pretty house, white window frames, parents · What happens: have, be, cut, live · To what, where: white window frames, pretty house

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 (pretty house, white window frames, parents), 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 house	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
3	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 house	amod
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 live	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 house	acl:relcl
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 frames	amod
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 frames	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 window	punct
11	frames	frame	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 has	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 porch	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 porch	det
14	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 porch	amod
15	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 frames	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 steps	cc
17	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 steps	amod
18	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 frames	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 strewn	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 strewn	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 strewn	cop
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 strewn	advmod
23	strewn	strewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 frames	parataxis
24	with	with	ADP	_	29 leaves	case
25	finely	finely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cut	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 finely	punct
27	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 leaves	amod
28	juniper	juniper	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 leaves	compound
29	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 strewn	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 house	punct
31	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 parents	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 Walter	case
33	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 live	nsubj
34	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 live	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	the pretty house	white window frames and a neat porch and clean steps			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frame=Patient
2	is	present	white window frames and a neat porch and clean steps			with cut juniper leaves; always, strewn property	tree rules
3	cut	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	live	present	Walter's parents		the pretty house		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=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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