The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 31
There was also a hard-working grocer who lived on the first floor, and he had the whole house for his own.
Who acts: working grocer, Grocer · What happens: be, work, live, have · To what, where: first floor, whole house
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: who acts (working grocer, Grocer), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 grocer | det |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 working | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| 7 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 grocer | amod |
| 8 | grocer | grocer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grocer | acl:relcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 floor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 floor | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 floor | amod |
| 14 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 had | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 house | amod |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 own | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 own | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 house | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a working grocer | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | work | gerund | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | live | past | a working grocer | the first floor | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Grocer | the whole house | for Grocer's own | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
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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