The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 96
So they arrived at last at the little old house, but when they stepped inside it turned into a large castle.
Who acts: dishes, house · What happens: arrive, step, turn · To what, where: last, large castle
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 (dishes, house), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 last | case |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 arrived | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 house | amod |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 house | amod |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stepped | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 stepped | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 stepped | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stepped | nsubj |
| 15 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arrived | conj |
| 16 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 18 turned | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 turned | nsubj |
| 18 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stepped | advcl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 castle | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 castle | det |
| 21 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 castle | amod |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turned | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | dishes = dish | last | at the little old house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | step | past | dishes = dish | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | house | a large castle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into castle=Trajectory |
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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