The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 33

And outside was a little yard in which were chickens and ducks, and also a little garden with vegetables and fruit trees.

What happens: be · To what, where: little yard, chickens

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: 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 yard	cc
2	outside	outside	ADV	_	6 yard	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 yard	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 yard	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 yard	amod
6	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	10 chickens	det
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 chickens	cop
10	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 yard	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ducks	cc
12	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 chickens	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 garden	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 garden	cc
15	also	also	ADV	_	18 garden	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 garden	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 garden	amod
18	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chickens	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 vegetables	case
20	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 garden	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 trees	cc
22	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 trees	compound
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 vegetables	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 yard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a little yard and which chickens and ducks and a little garden with vegetables and fruit trees				outside property	tree rules
2	is a	past		which chickens and ducks and a little garden with vegetables and fruit trees					tree rules

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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