Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 1

Along time ago, there lived an old poet, a thoroughly kind old poet.

What happens: live · To what, where: old poet

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. 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	Along	along	ADP	_	2 time	case
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
3	ago	ago	ADV	_	2 time	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 time	punct
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 lived	expl
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 poet	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 poet	amod
9	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 poet	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 poet	det
12	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	13 kind	advmod
13	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 poet	amod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 poet	amod
15	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 poet	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a old poet and a kind old poet		there	time		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme poet=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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