The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 239
In each blossom there dwelt a tiny man or woman; but this one was the King over the others.
Who acts: one · What happens: dwell, be · To what, where: tiny man, blossom, King
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 (one), 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 | _ | 3 blossom | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 blossom | det |
| 3 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dwelt | obl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 dwelt | advmod |
| 5 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dwelt | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 woman | cc |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 King | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 King | cc |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 King | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 King | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dwelt | obl |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 others | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 others | det |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dwelt | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | a tiny man or woman | each blossom; there | over the others | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | this one | the King | 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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