The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 85
Was it in the house? or was it at a neighbour’s?
What happens: be · To what, where: horn, neighbour
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 | Was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Was | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Was | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 it | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 it | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 it | cop |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 house | nmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 neighbour | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 neighbour | det |
| 12 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 it | nmod |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 neighbour | case |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | horn | in the house | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot it=Theme in house=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | horn | a neighbour | 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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