The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 126
The sun was high in the heavens when his master returned from the town.
Who acts: sun, master · What happens: be, return · To what, where: heavens, town
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, master), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 high | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 high | cop |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 heavens | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heavens | det |
| 7 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 high | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 returned | advmod |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 master | nmod:poss |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | nsubj |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 high | advcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 town | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 town | det |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 high | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sun | the heavens | high property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | return | past | sun's master | the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from town=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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