The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 55
It was encircled by a muddy ditch, and a little further on was a tiny thatched cottage, out of which came the Yellow Dwarf with a very jaunty air.
Who acts: muddy ditch · What happens: encircle, thatch, be, come · To what, where: door, tiny thatched cottage
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (muddy ditch), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 encircled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 encircled | aux:pass |
| 3 | encircled | encircle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 ditch | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ditch | det |
| 6 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ditch | amod |
| 7 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 encircled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 further | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 further | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 little | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 further | obl |
| 12 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 encircled | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 cottage | case |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cottage | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cottage | det |
| 16 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cottage | amod |
| 17 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 cottage | amod |
| 18 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 further | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 encircled | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Dwarf | det |
| 25 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Dwarf | amod |
| 26 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 air | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 air | det |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 jaunty | advmod |
| 30 | jaunty | jaunty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 air | amod |
| 31 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 encircled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encircle | past · passive | a muddy ditch | door | far property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | thatch | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | a tiny thatched cottage | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come | past | with a jaunty air | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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