More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 58
There lived a Puddock in a well, And a merry Mousie in a mill.
What happens: live · To what, where: Puddock, well
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. 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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Puddock | det |
| 4 | Puddock | puddock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 well | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 well | det |
| 7 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Mousie | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Mousie | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Mousie | det |
| 11 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Mousie | amod |
| 12 | Mousie | Mousie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 mill | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mill | det |
| 15 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Mousie | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a Puddock | a well; there | a merry Mousie in a mill obl | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme puddock=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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