The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 65
And outside the house was a large courtyard with horse and cow stables and a coach-house--all fine buildings; and a splendid garden with most beautiful flowers and fruit, and in a park quite a league long were deer and roe and hares, and everything one could wish for.
Who acts: house, everything one · What happens: be, wish · To what, where: deer, league
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 (house, everything one), 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 | _ | 8 courtyard | cc |
| 2 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 8 courtyard | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 courtyard | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 courtyard | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 courtyard | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 courtyard | amod |
| 8 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 horse | case |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 courtyard | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stables | cc |
| 12 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stables | compound |
| 13 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 courtyard | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 house | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 16 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 coach | punct |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 courtyard | conj |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 buildings | punct |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 buildings | det |
| 21 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 buildings | amod |
| 22 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 courtyard | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 garden | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 garden | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 garden | det |
| 26 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 garden | amod |
| 27 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 courtyard | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 flowers | case |
| 29 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 flowers | amod |
| 30 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 flowers | amod |
| 31 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 garden | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 fruit | cc |
| 33 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 flowers | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 park | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 park | cc |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 park | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 park | det |
| 38 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 flowers | conj |
| 39 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 41 league | det:predet |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 league | det |
| 41 | league | league | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 park | conj |
| 42 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 44 deer | advmod |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 deer | cop |
| 44 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 league | nmod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 roe | cc |
| 46 | roe | roe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 deer | conj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 hares | cc |
| 48 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 deer | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 wish | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 wish | cc |
| 51 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 52 one | compound |
| 52 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 wish | nsubj |
| 53 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 54 wish | aux |
| 54 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 league | acl:relcl |
| 55 | for | for | ADP | _ | 54 wish | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 courtyard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the house | outside a large courtyard and cow stables and a coach house and all fine buildings and a splendid garden with most beautiful flowers and fruit and a park and quite league; with horse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | deer and roe and hares | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wish | could | everything one | quite league not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot league=Theme |
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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