The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 115
By the stove lay three beasts, a hen, a cock, and a brindled cow.
What happens: lie · To what, where: three beasts
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 stove | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stove | det |
| 3 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 beasts | nummod |
| 6 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lay | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hen | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hen | det |
| 9 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cock | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cock | det |
| 12 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hen | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cow | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cow | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cow | det |
| 16 | brindled | brindled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cow | amod |
| 17 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | three beasts | by the stove; a hen and a cock obl; a brindled cow obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beast=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 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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