The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 80

His hoarseness came on when he was a house-dog and used to lie in front of the stove.

Who acts: hoarseness · What happens: come on, be, use, lie · To what, where: house dog, front

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hoarseness), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hoarseness	nmod:poss
2	hoarseness	hoarseness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 dog	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dog	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dog	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dog	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dog	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 house	punct
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 used	cc
13	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 lie	mark
15	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 used	xcomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 front	case
17	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lie	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 stove	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stove	det
20	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 front	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come on	past	Bow's hoarseness			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	hoarseness	a house dog		tree rules
3	use	past	Bow's hoarseness not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	lie	to-infinitive	Bow's hoarseness not said here		front of the stove	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location

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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