The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 100
In the hut was a young girl who was mending a net.
Who acts: young girl · What happens: be, mend · To what, where: young girl, hut, net
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young girl), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 hut | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hut | det |
| 3 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girl | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 girl | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 mending | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mending | aux |
| 10 | mending | mend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 girl | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 net | det |
| 12 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mending | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a young girl | the hut | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mend | past · progressive | a young girl | a net | tree rules |
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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