The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 109
Now the Gruagach was a kind of wicked fairy, with long curly brown hair, and his house was not very far from the king’s house.
Who acts: Gruagach, house · What happens: be · To what, where: kind, house
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gruagach, house), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 Gruagach | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Gruagach | det |
| 3 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kind | det |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fairy | case |
| 8 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fairy | amod |
| 9 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hair | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 hair | case |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hair | amod |
| 13 | curly | curly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hair | amod |
| 14 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hair | amod |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 house | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 house | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 house | nmod:poss |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 house | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 house | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 far | advmod |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 far | advmod |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 house | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 house | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 king | case |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Gruagach | a kind and the king's house | of wicked fairy; with long curly brown hair | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | fairy's house | the king's house | far property | 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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