The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 83
On the top of a high mountain dwells an old woman, who has in her stables twelve horses, each one more beautiful than the other.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: dwell, have · To what, where: old woman, top, stables
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 top | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 top | det |
| 3 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dwells | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mountain | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mountain | det |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mountain | amod |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 top | nmod |
| 8 | dwells | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dwells | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 has | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 has | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 woman | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 stables | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 stables | nmod:poss |
| 17 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 has | obj |
| 18 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 horses | nummod |
| 19 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stables | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 21 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stables | appos |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 beautiful | advmod |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 one | amod |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 other | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 other | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 beautiful | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dwells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | present | a old woman | the top of a high mountain | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme woman=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a old woman | woman's stables and twelve horses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stable=Patient |
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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