The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 5
She had quite seven thousand of such cages in the castle with very rare birds in them.
Who acts: woman · What happens: have · To what, where: seven thousand
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 thousand | advmod |
| 4 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 thousand | compound |
| 5 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cages | case |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cages | amod |
| 8 | cages | cage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thousand | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cages | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 birds | case |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 rare | advmod |
| 14 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 birds | amod |
| 15 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 castle | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 birds | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | woman | seven thousand of such cages in the castle with rare birds in birds | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=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 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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