The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 109

In the courtyard stood a huge granite block about twenty steps from the house, and when meal times came round the old man with the long beard went to the block, drew out a small silver staff, and struck the stone with it three times, so that the sound could be heard a long way off.

Who acts: meal times · What happens: stand, come, go, draw out, strike, hear · To what, where: huge granite block, courtyard, block, small silver staff, stone, sound

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meal times), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 courtyard	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 courtyard	det
3	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 block	det
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 block	amod
7	granite	granite	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 block	compound
8	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obj
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 twenty	advmod
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 steps	nummod
11	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stood	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 steps	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 came	mark
18	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 times	compound
19	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	parataxis
21	round	round	ADP	_	24 man	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 beard	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 beard	det
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 beard	amod
28	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 man	nmod
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 block	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 block	det
32	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 drew	punct
34	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	conj
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 drew	compound:prt
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 staff	det
37	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 staff	amod
38	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 staff	compound
39	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 drew	obl:unmarked
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 struck	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 struck	cc
42	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	parataxis
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 stone	det
44	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 struck	obj
45	with	with	ADP	_	46 it	case
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 struck	obl
47	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 times	nummod
48	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 struck	obl:unmarked
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 heard	punct
50	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	56 heard	mark
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 so	fixed
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 sound	det
53	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 heard	nsubj:pass
54	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 heard	aux
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 heard	aux:pass
56	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 struck	conj
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 way	det
58	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 way	amod
59	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 off	obl:unmarked
60	off	off	ADV	_	56 heard	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a huge granite block	the courtyard			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent block=Theme step=Destination
2	come	past	meal times					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	meal times not said here		the block		round the old man with the long beard	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme round man=Initial_Location to block=Destination
4	draw out	past	meal times not said here	a small silver staff				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	strike	past		the stone		time	with block	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stone=Patient with it=Instrument
6	hear	could · passive		the sound			off property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

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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