The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 47

At last there was no place left for him to search but a little wood, which contained in the centre a sort of hall built entirely of orange-trees, with four small rooms opening out of the corners.

Who acts: little wood, four small rooms · What happens: leave, search, contain, build, open out, sort · To what, where: place, centre, sort, corners, hall

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little wood, four small rooms), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	acl:relcl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 place	acl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 left	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 search	mark
11	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 left	advcl
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 wood	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 wood	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wood	amod
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 contained	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 contained	nsubj
18	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wood	acl:relcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 centre	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 centre	det
21	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 contained	obl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sort	det
23	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 centre	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 hall	case
25	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sort	nmod
26	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 sort	acl
27	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	26 built	advmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 trees	case
29	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 trees	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 orange	punct
31	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 built	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 rooms	punct
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 rooms	case
34	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 rooms	nummod
35	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 rooms	amod
36	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 trees	nmod
37	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 rooms	acl
38	out	out	ADP	_	41 corners	case
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 corners	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 corners	det
41	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 opening	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		no place but a little wood not said here		for gate	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for he=Recipient
2	search	to-infinitive					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	contain	past	a little wood		the centre		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location
4	build	participle		a sort of hall not said here		of orange trees with four small rooms; entirely property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	open out	gerund	four small rooms not said here	the corners			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location corner=Theme
6	sort			hall			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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