The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 38
The hut belonged to an old crone, who was also an ill-tempered and malicious troll.
Who acts: hut · What happens: belong, temper · To what, where: old crone
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hut), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hut | det |
| 2 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belonged | nsubj |
| 3 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 crone | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crone | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crone | amod |
| 7 | crone | crone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belonged | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tempered | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 tempered | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tempered | aux:pass |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 tempered | advmod |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tempered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tempered | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 ill | punct |
| 15 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 crone | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 troll | cc |
| 17 | malicious | malicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 troll | amod |
| 18 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tempered | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 belonged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | past | the hut | to a old crone | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | temper | past · passive | a old crone | 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 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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