More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 65
Once there was an old man and woman and a little girl, and they all lived in a house made of hempstalks.
Who acts: infants · What happens: be, make · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (infants), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 was | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lived | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 woman | cc |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 girl | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 girl | amod |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lived | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lived | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 lived | advmod |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | obl |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 house | acl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 hempstalks | case |
| 23 | hempstalks | hempstalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 made | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | infants = infant | a house | live property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | participle | a house not said here | of hempstalks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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