The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 8
A crystal stream ran through the pastures; not far from the place where he had got off the Beanstalk stood a fine, strong castle.
Who acts: crystal stream, stream, Beanstalk · What happens: run, get off, stand · To what, where: pastures, fine strong castle
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 (crystal stream, stream, Beanstalk), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stream | det |
| 2 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stream | amod |
| 3 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 pastures | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pastures | det |
| 7 | pastures | pasture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ran | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 place | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 far | advmod |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 place | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 got | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | aux |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 place | acl:relcl |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 stood | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Beanstalk | det |
| 20 | Beanstalk | Beanstalk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | nsubj |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 castle | det |
| 23 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 castle | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fine | punct |
| 25 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 castle | amod |
| 26 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | a crystal stream | the pastures | from the place | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through pasture=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | get off | past · perfect | stream | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the Beanstalk | a fine strong castle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus |
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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