The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 27
So there was no one left belonging to the house but the landlord’s daughter, who was a good, well-meaning girl, and had taken no part in all the evil doings.
Who acts: one, house · What happens: be, leave, belong, mean, take · To what, where: girl, part, evil doings
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, house), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | advcl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | nsubj |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 left | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 belonging | obl |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 daughter | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 landlord | det |
| 13 | landlord | landlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 landlord | case |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 good | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 good | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 good | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 good | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 house | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 meaning | punct |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 meaning | advmod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 well | punct |
| 24 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 good | advcl |
| 25 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 meaning | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 taken | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 taken | cc |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 taken | aux |
| 29 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 left | conj |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 part | det |
| 31 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 taken | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 doings | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 doings | det:predet |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 doings | det |
| 35 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 doings | amod |
| 36 | doings | doing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 taken | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no one not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | no one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | belong | gerund | no one not said here | to the house but the landlord's daughter | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the house but the landlord's daughter | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mean | gerund | the house but the landlord's daughter not said here | girl | well property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | |||
| 6 | take | past · perfect | no one not said here | no part | all evil doings | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in doing=Location |
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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