The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 43
In this horrible enclosure stood a small black house, which had only two grated windows, all covered with cobwebs, and a battered iron door.
Who acts: small black house, two grated windows · What happens: stand, have, grate, cover, batter · To what, where: small black house, horrible enclosure, two grated windows, all
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small black house, two grated windows), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 enclosure | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 enclosure | det |
| 3 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 enclosure | amod |
| 4 | enclosure | enclosure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 house | amod |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 house | amod |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 house | acl:relcl |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 two | advmod |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 windows | nummod |
| 15 | grated | grate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 windows | amod |
| 16 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 covered | punct |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 windows | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 cobwebs | case |
| 21 | cobwebs | cobweb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 covered | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 door | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 door | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 door | det |
| 25 | battered | batter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 door | amod |
| 26 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 door | compound |
| 27 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a small black house | this horrible enclosure | a battered iron door obl | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme in enclosure=Destination | |||
| 2 | have | past | a small black house | two grated windows | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grate | participle | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | cover | participle · passive | two grated windows not said here | all | with cobwebs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with cobweb=Theme | |||
| 5 | batter | participle | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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