The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 8
To this end she caused a little house to be built not far beyond the Palace gardens, on the bank of a river.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: cause, build · To what, where: little house, bank
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caused | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caused | nsubj |
| 5 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caused | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 built | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 built | aux:pass |
| 11 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 house | acl |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 far | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 built | advmod |
| 14 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 17 gardens | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gardens | det |
| 16 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 gardens | compound |
| 17 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 far | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bank | punct |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 bank | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bank | det |
| 21 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 built | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 river | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 river | det |
| 24 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bank | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | Queen | a little house | to this end | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition house=Patient | |||
| 2 | build | to-infinitive · passive | Queen not said here | a little house not said here | the bank of a river | far property | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: on bank=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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