More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 2
Once on a time, in the parts of Lindsey, there lived a wise woman.
What happens: live · To what, where: wise woman
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 lived | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 parts | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 parts | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 parts | det |
| 8 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 time | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Lindsey | case |
| 10 | Lindsey | Lindsey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 parts | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 lived | expl |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 15 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a wise woman | there | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme woman=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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