The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 53
Friends and neighbours paid us frequent visits, and we kept open house for all.
Who acts: Friends, we · What happens: pay, keep · To what, where: us, open house
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Friends, we), 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 | Friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 paid | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 neighbours | cc |
| 3 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Friends | conj |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 paid | obj |
| 6 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 visits | amod |
| 7 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 paid | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kept | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kept | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 kept | nsubj |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 paid | conj |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 house | amod |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 kept | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | Friends and neighbours | us | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient visit=Asset | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | we | open house | for all | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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