Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 1

A poor widow once lived in a little cottage.

Who acts: poor widow · What happens: live · To what, where: little cottage

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor widow), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 widow	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 widow	amod
3	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	nsubj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 lived	advmod
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 cottage	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cottage	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cottage	amod
9	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	a poor widow			a little cottage		once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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