More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 45

In the old days when London Bridge was lined with shops from one end to the other, and salmon swam under the arches, there lived at Swaffham, in Norfolk, a poor pedlar.

Who acts: salmon · What happens: line, swim, live · To what, where: London, one end, arches, Swaffham

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (salmon), 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 days	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 days	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lined	obl
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 lined	mark
6	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lined	nsubj:pass
7	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 London	flat
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lined	aux:pass
9	lined	line	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 shops	case
11	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lined	obl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 end	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 end	nummod
14	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lined	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 other	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lined	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 swam	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 swam	cc
20	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 swam	nsubj
21	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lined	parataxis
22	under	under	ADP	_	24 arches	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 arches	det
24	arches	arch	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 swam	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lived	punct
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 lived	expl
27	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 swam	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 Swaffham	case
29	Swaffham	Swaffham	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 lived	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Norfolk	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 Norfolk	case
32	Norfolk	Norfolk	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 lived	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 pedlar	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 pedlar	det
35	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 pedlar	amod
36	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Norfolk	appos
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	line	past · passive		London		from one end; day	with shops; to the other	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with shop=Theme
2	swim	past	salmon		the arches			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under arch=Trajectory
3	live	past	salmon not said here		Swaffham; there		in Norfolk	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at swaffham=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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