The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 31
This castle was once your father’s, and must again be yours.’
Who acts: castle · What happens: be · To what, where: yours
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 castle | det |
| 2 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 father | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 father | cop |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 father | advmod |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 father | case |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 yours | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 yours | cc |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 yours | aux |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 yours | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 yours | cop |
| 13 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 father | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 father | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this castle | 's your father; once property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | must | this castle not said here | yours | again | 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 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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