The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 6
Fortunately its habit, was to remain for several years in the same place, and not to move on till the whole neighbourhood was eaten up.
What happens: be, not move, eat up · To what, where: same place, whole neighbourhood
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 3 habit | advmod |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 habit | nmod:poss |
| 3 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remain | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 habit | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 remain | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 remain | mark |
| 7 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 9 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 years | amod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 remain | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 place | amod |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remain | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 move | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 move | cc |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 move | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 move | mark |
| 19 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 remain | parataxis |
| 20 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 26 eaten | mark |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 eaten | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 neighbourhood | det |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 neighbourhood | amod |
| 24 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 eaten | aux:pass |
| 26 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 move | advcl |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 eaten | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the same place | year | creature's habit obl; remain property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not move | to-infinitive | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | eat up | past · passive | the whole neighbourhood | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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