The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 62
He is staying just now with my second sister, who lives not far from here in a silver palace.
Who acts: husband, second sister · What happens: stay, not live
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 (husband, second sister), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 staying | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 staying | aux |
| 3 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 now | advmod |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 staying | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 sister | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sister | nmod:poss |
| 8 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 sister | amod |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 staying | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lives | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lives | nsubj |
| 12 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sister | acl:relcl |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 lives | advmod |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 here | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 here | case |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 lives | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 palace | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 palace | det |
| 19 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 palace | compound |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 here | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 staying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present · progressive | husband | now | with my second sister | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with sister=Location | |||
| 2 | not live | present | my second sister | vn exist-47.1-1 «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 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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