The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 40
But for his brother-in-law he had a house built with huge ovens all round it, that were kept heated all day and night.
Who acts: King, house · What happens: have, build, keep, heat · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, house), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 law | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 law | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 law | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 law | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 in | punct |
| 8 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 house | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 ovens | case |
| 15 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ovens | amod |
| 16 | ovens | oven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 built | obl |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 it | advmod |
| 18 | round | round | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 built | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 kept | punct |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 kept | aux:pass |
| 23 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 house | acl |
| 24 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 kept | xcomp |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 day | det |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heated | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 night | cc |
| 28 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 day | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | King | a house | for law | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | |||
| 2 | build | participle | a house not said here | with huge ovens; round house | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent with oven=Source | ||||
| 3 | keep | past · passive | a house | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | heat | participle | a house not said here | day | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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