The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 107
On the floor of the ruined chamber--which was but scantily lighted by a small barred window--sat a large screech owl.
Who acts: small barred window · What happens: ruin, light, bar, sit · To what, where: ruined chamber, large screech owl, floor
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small barred window), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 floor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 floor | det |
| 3 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sat | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 chamber | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chamber | det |
| 6 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 chamber | amod |
| 7 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floor | nmod |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 lighted | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lighted | aux |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 lighted | cc |
| 12 | scantily | scantily | ADV | _ | 13 lighted | advmod |
| 13 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 window | det |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 window | amod |
| 17 | barred | bar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 window | amod |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lighted | obl |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 floor | punct |
| 20 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 owl | det |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 owl | amod |
| 23 | screech | screech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 owl | compound |
| 24 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sat | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | light | past · passive | a small barred window | the ruined chamber | scantily property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | |||
| 3 | bar | participle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 4 | sit | past | a large screech owl | the floor of the ruined chamber | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent owl=Theme on floor=Location |
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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