The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 3
One day the old man was working in his garden, with his dog, as usual, close by.
Who acts: old man · What happens: work
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 working | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 working | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 working | aux |
| 7 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 garden | nmod:poss |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 working | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dog | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 dog | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dog | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 working | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 usual | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 usual | case |
| 17 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dog | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 close | punct |
| 19 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 usual | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 close | fixed |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 working | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past · progressive | the old man | day | with man's dog; in man's garden | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in garden=Theme |
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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