The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 48
She came to a little old house with a great deal of grass growing round, and stood in front of a little heap of wood.
Who acts: princess, grass · What happens: come, grow, stand, deal · To what, where: little old house, front, grass
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, grass), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 deal | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 deal | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 deal | amod |
| 11 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 grass | case |
| 13 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deal | nmod |
| 14 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 grass | acl |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 14 growing | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stood | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stood | cc |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 front | case |
| 20 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 heap | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 heap | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 heap | amod |
| 24 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 front | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 wood | case |
| 26 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heap | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | princess | a little old house with a great deal of grass | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | grass not said here | round property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | princess not said here | front of a little heap of wood | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | ||||
| 4 | deal | grass | nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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