The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 23
In a little it halted at the foot of a high mountain.
Who acts: country · What happens: halt · To what, where: little
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 halted | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 halted | nsubj |
| 5 | halted | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 foot | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 foot | det |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 halted | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mountain | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mountain | det |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mountain | amod |
| 12 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 foot | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 halted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | halt | past | country | a little | at the foot of a high mountain | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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