The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 59
Only under their feet was a tiny dry spot.
Who acts: feet · What happens: be · To what, where: tiny dry spot
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 (feet), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 feet | advmod |
| 2 | under | under | ADP | _ | 4 feet | case |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 feet | nmod:poss |
| 4 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spot | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spot | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 spot | det |
| 7 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spot | amod |
| 8 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spot | amod |
| 9 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 spot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | drops's feet | a tiny dry spot | tree rules |
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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