The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 8
By the roadside stood a tiny little house, and here he knocked and asked for a cup of water.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: stand, knock, ask · To what, where: tiny little house
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 roadside | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roadside | det |
| 3 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knocked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 knocked | cc |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 knocked | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knocked | nsubj |
| 13 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 knocked | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 cup | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cup | det |
| 18 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cup | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a tiny little house | by the roadside | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme by roadside=Destination | ||||
| 2 | knock | past | maiden | here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | maiden not said here | for a cup of water | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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