The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 8
It led him to a little hut all woven together of reeds and rushes.
Who acts: tree · What happens: lead, weave · To what, where: tailor, little hut
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 (tree), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 hut | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hut | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hut | amod |
| 7 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 woven | obl |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 woven | advmod |
| 9 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 led | conj |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 woven | advmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 reeds | case |
| 12 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 woven | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rushes | cc |
| 14 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 reeds | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | tree | tailor | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | weave | participle | tree not said here | a little hut | of reeds and rushes; all, together property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hut=Destination |
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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