The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 140
They were seven dwarfs who worked in the mines, right down deep in the heart of the mountain.
Who acts: masters, seven dwarfs · What happens: be, work · To what, where: seven dwarfs
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (masters, seven dwarfs), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dwarfs | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dwarfs | cop |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 dwarfs | nummod |
| 4 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 worked | nsubj |
| 6 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dwarfs | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mines | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mines | det |
| 9 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 worked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 down | punct |
| 11 | right | right | ADV | _ | 12 down | advmod |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 worked | parataxis |
| 13 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 12 down | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 heart | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heart | det |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 worked | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mountain | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mountain | det |
| 19 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heart | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dwarfs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | masters = master | seven dwarfs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work | past | seven dwarfs | in the heart of the mountain; in the mines | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mine=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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