The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 45
Once this house belonged to him, but now it was stolen.
What happens: belong, steal · To what, where: son, house
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 house | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 house | det |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 belonged | obl |
| 4 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 belonged | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stolen | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 stolen | cc |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 stolen | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stolen | aux:pass |
| 12 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 belonged | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 belonged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | past | son | once this house | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | steal | past · passive | house | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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