The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 57
In the middle of the park is a castle, where dwells a horrible witch who allows no living being to enter the doors.
Who acts: horrible witch, living · What happens: be, allow, enter · To what, where: castle, middle, living, doors
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 (horrible witch, living), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 castle | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 park | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 park | det |
| 6 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 castle | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dwells | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 dwells | advmod |
| 12 | dwells | dwell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 castle | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 witch | det |
| 14 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 witch | amod |
| 15 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dwells | appos |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 allows | nsubj |
| 17 | allows | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 witch | acl:relcl |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 living | det |
| 19 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 allows | obj |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 allows | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 enter | mark |
| 22 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 being | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 doors | det |
| 24 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 enter | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 castle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a castle and dwells | the middle of the park | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | allow | present | a horrible witch | no living | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | enter | to-infinitive | no living not said here | the doors | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Destination |
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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