The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 3
This was the cloister of the nuns, and the old woman was the Abbess.
Who acts: This, old woman · What happens: be · To what, where: cloister, Abbess
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, old woman), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 cloister | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cloister | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cloister | det |
| 4 | cloister | cloister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 nuns | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nuns | det |
| 7 | nuns | nun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cloister | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Abbess | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Abbess | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Abbess | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Abbess | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Abbess | det |
| 15 | Abbess | Abbess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cloister | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cloister | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the cloister | of the nuns | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the old woman | the Abbess | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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