More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 40
In a tiny house in the North Countrie, far away from any town or village, there lived not long ago, a poor widow all alone with her little son, a six-year-old boy.
What happens: not live · To what, where: poor widow, tiny house
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 house | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 3 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 house | amod |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Countrie | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Countrie | det |
| 7 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Countrie | compound |
| 8 | Countrie | Countrie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 house | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 away | punct |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 away | advmod |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 Countrie | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 town | case |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 town | det |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 away | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 village | cc |
| 16 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 town | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 house | punct |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 lived | expl |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 lived | advmod |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 ago | advmod |
| 22 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 19 lived | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 widow | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 widow | det |
| 25 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 widow | amod |
| 26 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | obl |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 alone | advmod |
| 28 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 26 widow | advmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 son | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 son | nmod:poss |
| 31 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 son | amod |
| 32 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 widow | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 boy | punct |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 boy | det |
| 35 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 year | nummod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 six | punct |
| 37 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 old | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 year | punct |
| 39 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 boy | amod |
| 40 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 son | appos |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live | past | a poor widow with widow's little son | a tiny house in the North Countrie; there | ago property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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