The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 131
Just outside the wood where she was now living lay a great corn-field.
Who acts: wood · What happens: live, lay · To what, where: great corn field
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 wood | advmod |
| 2 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 4 wood | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wood | det |
| 4 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 living | nsubj |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 living | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 living | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 living | aux |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 living | advmod |
| 9 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 living | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 field | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 field | amod |
| 13 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 field | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 corn | punct |
| 15 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 living | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · progressive | the wood | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | infinitive | the wood not said here | a great corn field | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Result |
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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