The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 47
That it was a ruinous old castle, haunted by spirits.
Who acts: That · What happens: be, haunt · To what, where: ruinous old castle
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 castle | nsubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 castle | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 castle | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 5 | ruinous | ruinous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 castle | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 castle | amod |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 haunted | punct |
| 9 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 castle | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 spirits | case |
| 11 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 haunted | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 castle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | a ruinous old castle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | haunt | participle | a ruinous old castle not said here | by spirits | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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