The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 11
But on the spot where his cottage used to stand he found a spacious castle.
Who acts: cottage, fisherman · What happens: use, stand, find · To what, where: spot, spacious castle
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cottage, fisherman), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 used | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 spot | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spot | det |
| 4 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 used | obl |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 used | advmod |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 used | nsubj |
| 8 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 stand | mark |
| 10 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 used | xcomp |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stand | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 castle | det |
| 14 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 castle | amod |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | fisherman's cottage | the spot | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | stand | to-infinitive | fisherman's cottage not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | find | past | fisherman | a spacious castle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Topic |
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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