More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 26

There lived an old man and an old woman at the side of a burn.

What happens: live · To what, where: old man, side

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 lived	expl
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 woman	cc
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 side	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 side	det
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 burn	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 burn	det
15	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 side	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a old man and a old woman		the side of a burn; there			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=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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