The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 34
When they got there, they built a palace on the spot, and lived in it for some time.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: get, build, live · To what, where: palace, spot
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 built | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 built | nsubj |
| 7 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 built | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 spot | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spot | det |
| 12 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 built | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lived | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lived | cc |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 built | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lived | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lived | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | brothers = brother | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | build | past | brothers = brother | a palace | the spot | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent palace=Theme on spot=Source | |||
| 3 | live | past | brothers = brother not said here | spot | time | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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