The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 81
Twelve years ago he built a castle on some land of mine.
Who acts: Mark · What happens: build · To what, where: castle, land
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mark), 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 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 built | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 built | nsubj |
| 5 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 land | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 land | det |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mine | case |
| 12 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 land | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | Mark | a castle | some land of mine | ago property | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent castle=Theme on land=Source |
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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