The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 21
Right in front of him was a large farm-house.
Who acts: front · What happens: be · To what, where: large farm house
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (front), 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 | Right | right | ADV | _ | 3 front | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 front | case |
| 3 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 front | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 house | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 house | amod |
| 9 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 farm | punct |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | front of Klaus | a large farm house | 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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