The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 97
They went into the kitchen--a huge place with at least twenty fireplaces, always alight.
Who acts: materials · What happens: go · To what, where: kitchen
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (materials), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 kitchen | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kitchen | det |
| 5 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 place | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 place | amod |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kitchen | appos |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 fireplaces | case |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 least | case |
| 12 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 twenty | nmod |
| 13 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 fireplaces | nummod |
| 14 | fireplaces | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 place | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 alight | punct |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 alight | advmod |
| 17 | alight | alight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fireplaces | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | materials = material | the kitchen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location |
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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