The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 134
All at once she came across the door of a field-mouse, who had a little hole under a corn-stalk.
Who acts: All, field mouse · What happens: come, have · To what, where: door, little hole, corn stalk
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 (All, field mouse), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 came | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 All | nmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 mouse | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mouse | det |
| 11 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mouse | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 field | punct |
| 13 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 door | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 mouse | acl:relcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hole | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hole | amod |
| 19 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 stalk | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 stalk | det |
| 22 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stalk | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 corn | punct |
| 24 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hole | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | All | the door of a field mouse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across door=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | a field mouse | a little hole | a corn stalk | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=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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