The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 8
After this the girl lived all alone in the little cottage.
Who acts: girl · What happens: live
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 girl | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 alone | advmod |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lived | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cottage | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cottage | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cottage | amod |
| 11 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 alone | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | this girl | alone property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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