The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 32
They went in, and inside the cottage was a tiny hall, and a beautiful sitting-room, and a bedroom in which stood a bed, a kitchen and a dining-room all furnished with the best of everything, and fitted up with every kind of tin and copper utensil.
Who acts: fisherman, bedroom, dining room · What happens: go in, be, stand, furnish, fit up · To what, where: beautiful sitting room, tiny hall, cottage, bed, all
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, bedroom, dining room), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hall | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hall | cc |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 8 cottage | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cottage | det |
| 8 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hall | obl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hall | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hall | det |
| 11 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hall | amod |
| 12 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 room | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 room | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 room | det |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 room | amod |
| 17 | sitting | sitting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 room | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 sitting | punct |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stood | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stood | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bedroom | det |
| 23 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stood | nsubj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 stood | nsubj |
| 26 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 bed | det |
| 28 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stood | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 kitchen | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 kitchen | det |
| 31 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stood | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 room | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 room | det |
| 34 | dining | dining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 room | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 dining | punct |
| 36 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 kitchen | conj |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 furnished | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 room | acl |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 best | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 best | det |
| 41 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 38 furnished | parataxis |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 everything | case |
| 43 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 41 best | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 fitted | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 fitted | cc |
| 46 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 stood | parataxis |
| 47 | up | up | ADP | _ | 46 fitted | compound:prt |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 50 kind | case |
| 49 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 50 kind | det |
| 50 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fitted | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 tin | case |
| 52 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 kind | nmod |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 utensil | cc |
| 54 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 utensil | compound |
| 55 | utensil | utensil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 tin | conj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | fisherman | a beautiful sitting room | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a tiny hall | the cottage | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | a bedroom | a bed | a kitchen and a dining room obl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bed=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | furnish | participle · passive | a dining room not said here | all | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | fit up | participle | with every kind of tin and copper utensil | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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