The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 32
Now not far from the music master’s house there dwelt a lady who possessed a most lovely little pussy cat called Koma.
Who acts: lady · What happens: dwell, possess, call · To what, where: lady, house, lovely little pussy cat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 far | advmod |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 far | advmod |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 dwelt | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 master | det |
| 6 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 master | compound |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 master | case |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dwelt | obl |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 dwelt | advmod |
| 11 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lady | det |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dwelt | obj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 possessed | nsubj |
| 15 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lady | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cat | det |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 lovely | advmod |
| 18 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cat | amod |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cat | amod |
| 20 | pussy | pussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cat | amod |
| 21 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 possessed | obj |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 cat | acl |
| 23 | Koma | Koma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 called | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | a lady | the music master's house; there | far property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme lady=Location | |||
| 2 | possess | past | a lady | a lovely little pussy cat | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a lovely little pussy cat not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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