The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 104
At the end of the chief road was a great house, beautiful exceedingly, built of sapphire and turquoise and marbles.
What happens: be, build · To what, where: great house, end
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 6 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 road | amod |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 house | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 house | amod |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beautiful | punct |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 house | amod |
| 14 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 13 beautiful | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 built | punct |
| 16 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 house | acl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sapphire | case |
| 18 | sapphire | sapphire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 built | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 turquoise | cc |
| 20 | turquoise | turquoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sapphire | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 marbles | cc |
| 22 | marbles | marble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sapphire | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a great house | at the end of the chief road | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build | participle | a great house not said here | of sapphire and turquoise and marbles | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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