The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 9
Now in this house dwelt two sisters, and one was eighty and the other ninety years old.
Who acts: one · What happens: dwell, be · To what, where: two sisters, house, eighty
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 (one), 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 | 5 dwelt | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 house | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 house | det |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dwelt | obl |
| 5 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sisters | nummod |
| 7 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dwelt | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eighty | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 eighty | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 eighty | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 eighty | cop |
| 12 | eighty | eighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 dwelt | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 old | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 years | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 years | amod |
| 16 | ninety | ninety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 years | compound |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 old | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eighty | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | two sisters | this house | now | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme sister=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | one | eighty | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | one not said here | year | tree rules |
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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