The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 49
Their parents lived opposite one another in two attics, and out on the leads they had put two boxes filled with flowers.
Who acts: parents, people · What happens: live, put, fill · To what, where: opposite one, two attics, two boxes
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, people), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 parents | nmod:poss |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 lived | obl |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 one | fixed |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 attics | case |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 attics | nummod |
| 9 | attics | attic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lived | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 out | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 out | cc |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 lived | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 leads | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 leads | det |
| 15 | leads | lead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 out | obl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 put | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | aux |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 leads | acl:relcl |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 boxes | nummod |
| 20 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 put | obj |
| 21 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 boxes | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 flowers | case |
| 23 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 filled | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | people's parents | opposite one | two attics | out property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in attic=Location | ||
| 2 | put | past · perfect | people | two boxes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent box=Goal | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle | two boxes not said here | with flowers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with flower=Instrument |
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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