The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 17
Her swamps are wide and empty, and no human beings dwell there; only frogs and toads and other creatures of that sort.’
Who acts: swamps, human beings · What happens: be, dwell
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swamps, human beings), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 swamps | nmod:poss |
| 2 | swamps | swamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wide | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wide | cop |
| 4 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 empty | cc |
| 6 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wide | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dwell | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dwell | cc |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 beings | det |
| 10 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 beings | amod |
| 11 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dwell | nsubj |
| 12 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wide | conj |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 dwell | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 frogs | punct |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 frogs | advmod |
| 16 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wide | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 toads | cc |
| 18 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 frogs | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 creatures | cc |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 creatures | amod |
| 21 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 frogs | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sort | case |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 sort | det |
| 24 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 creatures | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wide | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Puddocky's swamps | wide property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Puddocky's swamps not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | dwell | present | no human beings | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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