The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 38
He was at that moment close to the corner of a wood where stood a little hut, before the door of which his horse stopped of his own accord.
Who acts: sun, horse · What happens: be, stand, stop · To what, where: little hut
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, horse), 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 | 5 moment | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moment | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moment | amod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 corner | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 corner | det |
| 9 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wood | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wood | det |
| 12 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 corner | nmod |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 stood | advmod |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wood | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hut | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hut | amod |
| 17 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 door | punct |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moment | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 stopped | obl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 horse | nmod:poss |
| 25 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stopped | nsubj |
| 26 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 door | acl:relcl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 accord | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 accord | nmod:poss |
| 29 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 accord | amod |
| 30 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stopped | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sun | at that moment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a little hut | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | stop | past | sun's horse | of the door; of sun's own accord | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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